{"id":3645,"slug":"african-roster-resolution-status-05-september-2026","title":"Country-of-origin resolution status of this desk’s Spotify chart roster, 5 September 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's own artist roster, resolved against MusicBrainz with named editorial overrides","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Counts returned by this desk's roster resolver on 5 September 2026, against the artist roster built from every entry on Spotify's daily Top 200 in the 75 markets this desk collects. roster_total is every distinct charting artist the resolver holds. african_origin is the number resolved to one of the 54 African countries, either through a MusicBrainz artist linked to that artist's Spotify URL or through a manual editorial override carrying named evidence. unresolved is the number MusicBrainz could not place at all; those artists are counted as non-African by default in every downstream dataset, which is why any African total this desk publishes is a floor rather than a ceiling. share_of_roster_pct is each count divided by 4,908, to one decimal place. Inspection of the unresolved list on this date shows it is dominated by Arabic-script and Arabic-language acts charting in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, so the understatement is concentrated on the Egyptian side of this desk's African figures rather than spread evenly.","unit":"artists","license":"Afrobeats Wire's compilation and analysis are licensed CC BY 4.0.","confidence":"high","retrieved":"2026-09-05 19:48:51","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"measure","label":"Measure","type":"text"},{"key":"artists","label":"Artists","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_roster_pct","label":"Share of roster, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"measure":"Charting artists on the roster","artists":4908,"share_of_roster_pct":100},{"measure":"Resolved to an African country of origin","artists":119,"share_of_roster_pct":2.4},{"measure":"Origin unresolved, counted as non-African by default","artists":61,"share_of_roster_pct":1.2}]}