{"id":9007,"slug":"origin-flag-decisions-03-november-2026","title":"Editorial decisions on seven flagged origin classifications, Spotify African panel, 3 November 2026","source":"This desk's own anomalies queue, decided against each artist's actual charting markets and collaborators in this desk's multi-service chart tables","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Every row the anomalies command flagged on the 3 November 2026 panel was decided by reading the artist's real charting entries across all six services this desk collects for the dates 28 October to 3 November 2026, specifically which country charts the artist appeared on, the language of the charting title, and the credited collaborators. Four rows carried the 'classified by name search' flag and three carried 'no African chart presence'. No classification was changed; the evidence column records what was read in each case. decision is 'upheld' where the registry country was confirmed and 'corrected' where it was not.","unit":"count","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":"high","retrieved":"2026-11-04 01:47:15","n":7,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"registry_country","label":"Registry country","type":"text"},{"key":"flag","label":"Flag raised","type":"text"},{"key":"evidence","label":"What was read","type":"text"},{"key":"decision","label":"Decision","type":"text"},{"key":"rows_changed","label":"Classifications changed","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Lege-Cy","registry_country":"EG","flag":"classified by name search","evidence":"Charts only on Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria charts, on an Arabic-titled record credited with Egyptian rapper Marwan Pablo","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0},{"artist":"Tchubi","registry_country":"MA","flag":"classified by name search","evidence":"Charts only on Moroccan charts, including a record credited with the Moroccan band Hoba Hoba Spirit","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0},{"artist":"MA3IZ","registry_country":"MA","flag":"classified by name search","evidence":"Charts on Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria charts with a Darija-titled record, highest placement in Morocco","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0},{"artist":"Houari Dauphin","registry_country":"DZ","flag":"classified by name search","evidence":"Charts on Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria charts with a Darija-titled rai record credited with Algerian artist Tchikou 22","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0},{"artist":"Soolking","registry_country":"DZ","flag":"no African chart presence","evidence":"Algerian artist resident in France charting only on the France chart, which is the export pattern this flag is designed to surface rather than an error","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","registry_country":"AO","flag":"no African chart presence","evidence":"Angolan artist charting only in Portugal, a correctly classified genuine export","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0},{"artist":"Master Jake","registry_country":"AO","flag":"no African chart presence","evidence":"Angolan artist charting only in Portugal, a correctly classified genuine export","decision":"upheld","rows_changed":0}]}