{"id":7428,"slug":"african-presence-first-vs-last-13aug-16oct-2026","title":"African presence on Spotify’s published charts, first reading versus latest, 13 August to 16 October 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's own african-presence-over-time series","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Two rows of this desk's african-presence-over-time series are set side by side: 2026-08-13, the first collection date in the series, and 2026-10-16, the latest. Both values in every row are copied unchanged from that series; nothing is interpolated. change_pct is (latest divided by first, minus one), times 100, rounded to two decimals. The series holds 44 collection dates in total between those two endpoints, and collection is irregular rather than daily, so the 64 calendar days between the endpoints contain 42 intermediate readings and 20 days with no reading at all. export_share is African-origin artists' charted streams earned on charts outside Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa as a percentage of their charted streams everywhere. african_share is African-origin artists' charted streams as a percentage of all charted streams across every market on the panel. markets_charting counts markets carrying at least one African-origin artist. A two-point comparison is deliberately fragile, which is why the companion african-presence-over-time-robustness scenarios drop the highest readings in the series and are reported alongside it.","unit":"mixed","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":"2026-10-16 07:47:35","n":7,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"metric","label":"Metric","type":"text"},{"key":"aug13","label":"13 Aug 2026","type":"number"},{"key":"oct16","label":"16 Oct 2026","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change (%)","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"metric":"Export share of African artists' charted streams (%)","aug13":2.405,"oct16":0.969,"change_pct":-59.71},{"metric":"Export streams earned outside Africa","aug13":380704,"oct16":169712,"change_pct":-55.42},{"metric":"African share of all charted streams, every market (%)","aug13":2.158,"oct16":2.542,"change_pct":17.79},{"metric":"African artists' charted streams, all markets","aug13":15831536,"oct16":17516336,"change_pct":10.64},{"metric":"Total charted streams on the panel, all markets","aug13":733592014,"oct16":689177803,"change_pct":-6.05},{"metric":"Markets carrying any African artist","aug13":12,"oct16":7,"change_pct":-41.67},{"metric":"African artists on the panel","aug13":93,"oct16":111,"change_pct":19.35}]}