{"id":4961,"slug":"home-chart-entry-cost-ratio-30-august-2026","title":"What it costs to enter your own home chart, African-published Spotify markets, priced relative to the cheapest, 30 August 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's home-chart-entry-cost-priced-30-august-2026 dataset","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"entry_usd and no1_usd are taken unchanged from this desk's home-chart-entry-cost-priced-30-august-2026 dataset, itself streams at chart position 200 and position 1 on each market's 30 August 2026 daily Top 200, priced at $0.003 per stream (Duetti's published global 2024 Spotify rate). entry_ratio_to_cheapest divides each market's entry_usd by the lowest entry_usd on the four-market panel, Morocco's $14.00; no1_ratio_to_cheapest divides each market's no1_usd by Morocco's no1_usd, $190.74, the lowest of the four. Both ratios are rounded to two decimal places. Morocco's own ratio is 1.00 by construction in both columns.","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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-09-18 13:42:56","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"iso2","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"entry_usd","label":"Position-200 streams priced, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"entry_ratio_to_cheapest","label":"Entry cost, multiple of the cheapest market","type":"number"},{"key":"no1_usd","label":"Position-1 streams priced, USD","type":"number"},{"key":"no1_ratio_to_cheapest","label":"No.1 cost, multiple of the cheapest market","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"market":"Nigeria","iso2":"NG","entry_usd":97.55,"entry_ratio_to_cheapest":6.97,"no1_usd":1159.77,"no1_ratio_to_cheapest":6.08},{"market":"Egypt","iso2":"EG","entry_usd":44.19,"entry_ratio_to_cheapest":3.16,"no1_usd":391.26,"no1_ratio_to_cheapest":2.05},{"market":"South Africa","iso2":"ZA","entry_usd":51.73,"entry_ratio_to_cheapest":3.7,"no1_usd":331.42,"no1_ratio_to_cheapest":1.74},{"market":"Morocco","iso2":"MA","entry_usd":14,"entry_ratio_to_cheapest":1,"no1_usd":190.74,"no1_ratio_to_cheapest":1}]}