{"id":4908,"slug":"home-chart-entry-cost-priced-30-august-2026","title":"What it costs to appear on your own home chart, four African-published Spotify charts, priced, 30 August 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's spotify-chart-entry-threshold-by-market dataset (30 August 2026 collection) and the Spotify 2024 row of duetti-per-stream-rates-2024","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"entry_streams and no1_streams for Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa are taken unchanged from this desk's spotify-chart-entry-threshold-by-market dataset, collected on 2026-08-30, a different collection date from this piece's main 2026-09-17 pricing table because it is the most recent full position-by-position entry-threshold collection this desk holds; the two dates are not merged in any single figure. entry_usd and no1_usd multiply the corresponding stream count by $0.003, that is $3.00 per 1,000 streams, Duetti's published global Spotify payout rate for calendar 2024, held in this desk's duetti-per-stream-rates-2024 dataset, subject to the same ceiling-not-floor caveat as this piece's main table: African streaming markets are widely reported as lower-priced than the US and Western Europe on which Duetti's blend is weighted, so the true amount is very likely lower. entry_streams is the streams reported against chart position 200 on that market's daily Top 200 on 2026-08-30, the minimum a track needed that day to appear on the chart at all; no1_streams is the streams reported against position 1. chart_streams_this_date is that market's full Top 200 total on 2026-08-30, included so a reader can see it differs from the 2026-09-17 figures used elsewhere in this piece, and is not used in any other column here.","unit":"usd","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":"2026-09-18 01:49:43","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"iso2","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"entry_streams","label":"Streams at position 200","type":"number"},{"key":"entry_usd","label":"Position-200 streams priced, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"no1_streams","label":"Streams at position 1","type":"number"},{"key":"no1_usd","label":"Position-1 streams priced, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"chart_streams_this_date","label":"Total chart streams, 30 Aug 2026","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"market":"Nigeria","iso2":"NG","entry_streams":32515,"entry_usd":97.55,"no1_streams":386591,"no1_usd":1159.77,"chart_streams_this_date":13781430},{"market":"Egypt","iso2":"EG","entry_streams":14731,"entry_usd":44.19,"no1_streams":130419,"no1_usd":391.26,"chart_streams_this_date":5784749},{"market":"Morocco","iso2":"MA","entry_streams":4666,"entry_usd":14,"no1_streams":63581,"no1_usd":190.74,"chart_streams_this_date":1938085},{"market":"South Africa","iso2":"ZA","entry_streams":17245,"entry_usd":51.73,"no1_streams":110473,"no1_usd":331.42,"chart_streams_this_date":6401246}]}