{"id":9214,"slug":"african-presence-first-vs-last-13aug-05nov-2026","title":"African presence on Spotify’s published charts, first reading versus latest, 13 August to 5 November 2026","source":"This desk's own african-presence-over-time dataset, 1st and 58th collection dates","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Took the 1st (2026-08-13) and 58th, most recent, (2026-11-05) rows of this desk's african-presence-over-time series, an 84-day, 58-date panel built from Spotify's published daily Top 200 on every market it charts, with lead-artist origin resolved via MusicBrainz and corrected where this desk's own review found an error. A gap in the dates is a gap in collection, not a zero. change_pct is (latest minus first) divided by first, times 100, computed here rather than in prose. Spotify's own global aggregate chart is excluded throughout because it double-counts the country charts.","unit":"","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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-11-05 19:54:20","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"metric","label":"Metric","type":"text"},{"key":"aug13","label":"13 August 2026","type":"number"},{"key":"nov05","label":"5 November 2026","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"metric":"African share of all charted streams, %","aug13":2.158,"nov05":2.594,"change_pct":20.2},{"metric":"Share of African artists' own streams earned outside Africa, %","aug13":2.405,"nov05":0.866,"change_pct":-64},{"metric":"Markets carrying any African artist","aug13":12,"nov05":7,"change_pct":-41.7},{"metric":"African artists charting","aug13":93,"nov05":108,"change_pct":16.1}]}