{"id":8927,"slug":"african-markets-with-no-published-daily-chart-21oct-03nov-2026","title":"African markets with no published daily song chart in this desk’s store, split by whether this desk asked for one, 21 October to 3 November 2026","source":"This desk's own afw_chart_snapshot and afw_chart_entry collection store, 14 collection dates, 21 October to 3 November 2026","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"The 54 African UN member states minus the 42 for which at least one of the six services published a daily song chart, leaving 12 rows, which are then split by whether this desk's collector requests that market at all. requested_by_this_desk is 1 for the 4 markets the collector has asked all six services for on every one of the 79 collection dates it holds and which have never returned a chart from any of them, and 0 for the 8 markets the collector does not request, where this desk cannot say whether a chart exists. collection_dates_requested is 79 for the first group and 0 for the second. Absence in the first group means absence from these six published charts, not absence of listening. Absence in the second group means only that this desk did not look. Population, stated plainly because it is the binding limit on this piece: this desk's collector requests a daily chart for 46 African storefronts, not all 54 African member states of the United Nations. The 46 are read directly out of afw_charts_countries() in wp-content\/mu-plugins\/afw-charts.php as it stood on 3 November 2026. Eight African states are therefore not requested at all and are recorded here as a gap in this desk's own instrument, not as a finding about any service. Window: the 14 consecutive collection dates from 2026-10-21 to 2026-11-03 inclusive. All six services returned a chart on all 14 of those dates, so no service is advantaged or penalised by a missed collection day. A market counts as covered by a service if that service published a daily song chart for it, and the collector persisted it, on at least one of the 14 dates. A 14-day union is used rather than a single day because one service, Apple Music, returned between 26 and 36 African markets on individual days inside the window while the other five were constant; a single-day reading would move the headline for a collection reason rather than a publishing one. The 42-market result is identical when computed over all 79 collection dates this desk holds, which is the strongest available check that the window is not doing the work. Only song charts are counted. Apple's separate daily album and music-video charts are excluded, which is why three markets Apple charts for albums only are not counted as covered. Published volume means the service publishes a stream or view count against each rank, as persisted into this desk's chart_entry store; rank-only charts are recorded as publishing no volume. Provenance of each feed, as configured in the collector: Apple Music Most Played and iTunes Top Songs are read from Apple's own public endpoints, rss.marketingtools.apple.com\/api\/v2\/{market}\/music\/most-played and itunes.apple.com\/{market}\/rss\/topsongs; Spotify, Shazam, Deezer and YouTube are read from kworb.net's public mirrors of each service's published chart. This desk's own composite chart is excluded throughout: the question is what the services publish, not what this desk derives from them. group_size is 4 on the requested-and-empty rows and 8 on the not-requested rows; markets_without_chart_total is 12 on every row, the two groups combined. Both are carried in the table so the counts are verifiable rather than asserted in prose.","unit":"count","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0. Rights in the underlying source data remain with the source named above.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-11-03 13:55:05","n":12,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"iso2","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"requested_by_this_desk","label":"This desk requests it","type":"number"},{"key":"services_publishing","label":"Services publishing a daily chart","type":"number"},{"key":"collection_dates_requested","label":"Collection dates requested","type":"number"},{"key":"group_size","label":"Markets in this group","type":"number"},{"key":"markets_without_chart_total","label":"African markets with no chart, total","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"market":"Comoros","iso2":"KM","requested_by_this_desk":1,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":79,"group_size":4,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Djibouti","iso2":"DJ","requested_by_this_desk":1,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":79,"group_size":4,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Guinea","iso2":"GN","requested_by_this_desk":1,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":79,"group_size":4,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Lesotho","iso2":"LS","requested_by_this_desk":1,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":79,"group_size":4,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Burundi","iso2":"BI","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Central African Republic","iso2":"CF","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Equatorial Guinea","iso2":"GQ","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Eritrea","iso2":"ER","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Somalia","iso2":"SO","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"South Sudan","iso2":"SS","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Sudan","iso2":"SD","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12},{"market":"Togo","iso2":"TG","requested_by_this_desk":0,"services_publishing":0,"collection_dates_requested":0,"group_size":8,"markets_without_chart_total":12}]}