{"id":9156,"slug":"apple-albums-african-artists-2026","title":"Artists supplying Apple Music’s African-origin albums-chart positions, 41 African markets, 16 August to 4 November 2026","source":"This desk's own Apple Music albums-chart collection, plus this desk's own artist-origin registry","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Every distinct lead artist, by the same name-matching method as the panel comparison, credited on an African-origin albums-chart position anywhere in the 41-market panel between 16 August and 4 November 2026. markets_reached counts the number of distinct African markets in which at least one of that artist's albums charted on at least one of the 78 collection dates; it is not weighted by how many of their albums charted or for how long. 123 distinct artists matched in total, of whom 43 are Nigerian and 31 are South African; every other African origin in the registry is represented by at most a handful of artists reaching fewer markets than the fifteen shown here.","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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-11-05 01:50:34","n":15,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"country","label":"Origin","type":"text"},{"key":"markets_reached","label":"African markets reached","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Asake","country":"NG","markets_reached":38},{"artist":"Ayra Starr","country":"NG","markets_reached":37},{"artist":"OMAH LAY","country":"NG","markets_reached":37},{"artist":"Victony","country":"NG","markets_reached":36},{"artist":"Burna Boy","country":"NG","markets_reached":35},{"artist":"Davido","country":"NG","markets_reached":32},{"artist":"FOLA","country":"NG","markets_reached":31},{"artist":"BNXN","country":"NG","markets_reached":31},{"artist":"Fireboy DML","country":"NG","markets_reached":30},{"artist":"Seyi Vibez","country":"NG","markets_reached":30},{"artist":"Tems","country":"NG","markets_reached":29},{"artist":"DJ Maphorisa & Xduppy","country":"ZA","markets_reached":28},{"artist":"Wizkid","country":"NG","markets_reached":27},{"artist":"Rema","country":"NG","markets_reached":26},{"artist":"Young Jonn","country":"NG","markets_reached":24}]}