{"id":2058,"slug":"export-column-persistence","title":"Persistence of Spotify’s top African chart exporters, 13 to 20 August 2026","source":"Computed from the registered datasets african-export-footprint (13 August 2026 collection) and spotify-african-artists-global (20 August 2026 collection)","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Took the four largest rows by export_streams in african-export-footprint, the 13 August 2026 full-population export table (every African-origin artist charting on any of Spotify's 75 daily charts), and looked each one up by exact artist name in spotify-african-artists-global, the 20 August 2026 top-50-by-volume panel. All four were still present. change_pct is (export_20aug - export_13aug) \/ export_13aug. TUL8TE, the fifth-largest exporter on 20 August, does not appear in the 13 August footprint at all and is recorded as a new entrant with a null 13 August baseline rather than a percentage change from zero. An artist who exported on 13 August without being one of the 50 highest-volume African artists by 20 August would not be visible in this comparison, since the 20 August side is drawn from the top-50 panel rather than the full population; that asymmetry is a limit of the comparison, not evidence the artist stopped exporting.","unit":"streams","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":"2026-08-21 07:45:52","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"country","label":"Country","type":"text"},{"key":"export_13aug","label":"Export streams, 13 Aug","type":"number"},{"key":"export_20aug","label":"Export streams, 20 Aug","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change, %","type":"number"},{"key":"status","label":"Status","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"artist":"DopeNation","country":"GH","export_13aug":118050,"export_20aug":104852,"change_pct":-11.18,"status":"persisted"},{"artist":"Calema","country":"ST","export_13aug":110982,"export_20aug":106142,"change_pct":-4.36,"status":"persisted"},{"artist":"Soolking","country":"DZ","export_13aug":71758,"export_20aug":72204,"change_pct":0.62,"status":"persisted"},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","country":"AO","export_13aug":53744,"export_20aug":53627,"change_pct":-0.22,"status":"persisted"},{"artist":"TUL8TE","country":"EG","export_13aug":null,"export_20aug":50237,"change_pct":null,"status":"new entrant"}]}