{"id":7481,"slug":"global-tier-vs-panel-concentration-ratio-16-october-2026","title":"Money share per population share: Spotify’s disclosed global earnings tiers against this desk’s African Spotify panel, 16 October 2026","source":"Computed from loud-and-clear-concentration-floor-2025, spotify-loud-and-clear-tiers-2025 and panel-gross-concentration-16-october-2026","source_url":"https:\/\/newsroom.spotify.com\/2026-03-11\/loud-and-clear-music-economics-highlights\/","source_type":"computed","method":"pct_of_reference_population expresses each segment's artist count as a percentage of a reference population: for the two global tiers, Spotify's own disclosed rank of the 100,000th-earning artist in 2025 (spotify-loud-and-clear-tiers-2025), the only population anchor Spotify discloses, and itself a floor since Spotify's actual monetised-artist count is not published and is almost certainly larger; for the panel row, the 50 artists on this desk's 16 October 2026 African panel. share_pct is taken directly from the cited dataset for each row. concentration_ratio divides share_pct by pct_of_reference_population: a ratio of 1 would mean a segment's share of money exactly matches its share of population: above 1 means money is more concentrated in that segment than a population-proportional split would predict. The two bases are not the same kind of number: the global share_pct values are floors built from disclosed thresholds, not actual earnings, so true global concentration is at least this high and could be materially higher; the panel share_pct is a full computed value from known stream counts at a public rate, not a floor. Confidence is marked low because the comparison spans two different money pools (all platforms and genres worldwide over a full year, against one African Spotify chart sample on one day), two different artist populations of very different scale, and because the global reference population of 100,000 is itself understated. This dataset measures whether concentration, expressed as money-share per population-share, differs between the two, not whether the underlying dollar amounts are comparable.","unit":"ratio","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":"low","retrieved":"2026-10-16 19:48:38","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"population_segment","label":"Segment","type":"text"},{"key":"segment_count","label":"Artists in segment","type":"number"},{"key":"reference_population","label":"Reference population","type":"number"},{"key":"pct_of_reference_population","label":"% of reference population","type":"number"},{"key":"share_pct","label":"Share of money, %","type":"number"},{"key":"share_basis","label":"Basis for share figure","type":"text"},{"key":"concentration_ratio","label":"Concentration ratio (share %% \/ population %%)","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"population_segment":"Spotify global tier: earned $10,000,000 or more in 2025","segment_count":80,"reference_population":100000,"pct_of_reference_population":0.08,"share_pct":7.27,"share_basis":"Floor share of Spotify's disclosed $11,000,000,000 total 2025 industry payout (loud-and-clear-concentration-floor-2025)","concentration_ratio":90.87},{"population_segment":"Spotify global tier: earned $1,000,000 or more in 2025","segment_count":1500,"reference_population":100000,"pct_of_reference_population":1.5,"share_pct":13.64,"share_basis":"Floor share of Spotify's disclosed $11,000,000,000 total 2025 industry payout (loud-and-clear-concentration-floor-2025)","concentration_ratio":9.09},{"population_segment":"This desk's African Spotify panel: top 10 of 50 artists, 16 October 2026","segment_count":10,"reference_population":50,"pct_of_reference_population":20,"share_pct":63.63,"share_basis":"Modeled share of the panel's $48,284.88 gross that day (panel-gross-concentration-16-october-2026)","concentration_ratio":3.18}]}