{"id":3767,"slug":"four-african-charts-monday-panel-aug-sep-2026","title":"African share of Spotify’s four African daily charts on four consecutive Mondays, 17 August to 7 September 2026","source":"kworb.net Spotify daily country charts, artist origin from MusicBrainz and this desk's editorial roster","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"One row per market. monday_entries is the number of chart places read for that market across the four Mondays, 200 places on each of four dates, and monday_chart_streams the streams they carried; the column sums give the size of the whole panel. The four share columns are that market's African share of charted streams on each of the four Mondays; change_pts is the last Monday minus the first. african_streams and chart_streams columns give the numerator and the denominator separately on the first and last Monday, with their own percentage changes, so a reader can see whether a share moved because African music moved or because the rest of the chart did. all_steps columns count direction across every one of the 15 date-to-date transitions in the full 16-date series, which is weekday-neutral because it counts direction rather than size. Four columns ending _abs restate the signed change columns as magnitudes; the direction is in the signed column beside each. Daily chart volume swings with the day of the week, and it swings hardest in South Africa: across the 16 collected dates South Africa's Top 200 stream total ranges from 3,492,265 to 7,133,967, a spread of 104.3 per cent of the lower figure, against 24.9 per cent for Nigeria, 18.0 per cent for Egypt and 10.7 per cent for Morocco. An unevenly spaced series therefore cannot be read endpoint to endpoint without risking a weekday artefact. This dataset holds weekday fixed: it uses only the four Mondays the desk collected, 17, 24 and 31 August and 7 September 2026, evenly spaced at seven days. Four observations is a short panel and it cannot separate a weekday effect from a trend running in the same direction, and no significance is claimed from four points. This desk's Spotify chart collector retains the most recent full 76-market snapshots of the daily Top 200 as published by kworb.net. This build ran on 2026-09-07 over every snapshot on disk: 2026-08-13, 2026-08-17, 2026-08-20, 2026-08-21, 2026-08-22, 2026-08-24, 2026-08-25, 2026-08-27, 2026-08-28, 2026-08-30, 2026-08-31, 2026-09-01, 2026-09-02, 2026-09-04, 2026-09-06 and 2026-09-07. Gaps between listed dates are collection gaps, not zeros, and the intervals are uneven, which is the reason this dataset is built on same-weekday dates only. For each date and each of the four markets Spotify publishes a daily chart for in Africa (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa), every entry on that market's Top 200 was summed, and the portion credited to lead artists whose registered country of origin is on the African continent was divided by the market total. Origin is applied as currently registered in this desk's roster, to every date, so a later correction moves the whole series rather than only future points. Two artists flagged as classified by name search and relevant to these four charts, Samthing Soweto (South Africa) and Cheb Amrou (Morocco), were checked against their charting recordings and confirmed against published biography before this build. Chart streams are a sample of consumption inside a market's daily Top 200, not a full accounting of streaming in that market, and a share of the Top 200 is not a share of a country's listening. On 2026-08-28 the upstream source served a chart identical in every position, track and stream count to 2026-08-27 for 44 of 76 markets, Egypt among them; Nigeria, Morocco and South Africa differed. That date is retained and disclosed rather than dropped. It is not one of the four Mondays used here.","unit":"pct","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":"2026-09-07 00:00:00","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"mon1_share_pct","label":"African share, 17 Aug, %","type":"number"},{"key":"mon2_share_pct","label":"African share, 24 Aug, %","type":"number"},{"key":"mon3_share_pct","label":"African share, 31 Aug, %","type":"number"},{"key":"mon4_share_pct","label":"African share, 7 Sep, %","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pts","label":"Change across the four Mondays, points","type":"number"},{"key":"change_rel_pct","label":"Change, % of first Monday","type":"number"},{"key":"monday_steps_rose","label":"Monday-to-Monday steps that rose","type":"number"},{"key":"monday_steps_fell","label":"Monday-to-Monday steps that fell","type":"number"},{"key":"all_steps_total","label":"All date-to-date steps in the 16-date series","type":"number"},{"key":"all_steps_rose","label":"All steps that 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