{"id":10061,"slug":"panel-classification-decisions-12-november-2026","title":"Panel origin classification decisions, 12 November 2026","source":"MusicBrainz artist records and URL relations, read against each artist's own charting footprint in the desk's Spotify market panel","source_url":"https:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/ws\/2","source_type":"registry","method":"Every row the anomalies queue flagged on 12 November 2026, plus two origin corrections found by spot-checking the roster rows this week's figures depend on. For each artist the desk looked up the Spotify artist URL as a MusicBrainz url relation. Where that returned an artist MBID the country on that record was used and the row is marked identity-match. Where no MusicBrainz record carries the Spotify URL, no identity evidence exists, and the decision was made from the artist's own charting footprint: which markets the artist charts in, the language of the charting titles, and the co-credited artists on those tracks. Those rows are marked footprint. Two rows are corrections: Tyla was held in the roster as GB on an unreliable name search, and identity match on her Spotify URL returns a South African record; Veigh's Spotify URL is attached to a Mozambican artist record while a separate MusicBrainz record exists for the Brazilian trap artist of that name, and the Spotify ID charts only in Brazil and Portugal with a Brazilian Portuguese title. decision_changed is 1 where the stored origin was altered.","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":"2026-11-12 14:06:43","n":9,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"flag","label":"Why flagged","type":"text"},{"key":"origin_before","label":"Origin before","type":"text"},{"key":"origin_after","label":"Origin after","type":"text"},{"key":"basis","label":"Basis for decision","type":"text"},{"key":"decision_changed","label":"Origin changed","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Tyla","flag":"roster spot-check","origin_before":"GB","origin_after":"ZA","basis":"identity-match: Spotify URL resolves to MusicBrainz artist 45425c84, country ZA","decision_changed":1},{"artist":"Veigh","flag":"roster spot-check","origin_before":"MZ","origin_after":"BR","basis":"identity-match misattached: separate MusicBrainz record ff5cc1fe is the Brazilian artist; Spotify ID charts in Brazil and Portugal only","decision_changed":1},{"artist":"Soolking","flag":"no African chart presence","origin_before":"DZ","origin_after":"DZ","basis":"identity-match: MusicBrainz record gives Algeria; charting only in France is export, not misclassification","decision_changed":0},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","flag":"no African chart presence","origin_before":"AO","origin_after":"AO","basis":"identity-match: MusicBrainz record gives Angola; charting only in Portugal is export, not misclassification","decision_changed":0},{"artist":"Lege-Cy","flag":"classified by name search","origin_before":"EG","origin_after":"EG","basis":"footprint: no MusicBrainz Spotify link; charts in Egypt only, Arabic titles, Egyptian co-credits","decision_changed":0},{"artist":"Tchubi","flag":"classified by name search","origin_before":"MA","origin_after":"MA","basis":"footprint: no MusicBrainz Spotify link; charts in Morocco, co-credited with Hoba Hoba Spirit","decision_changed":0},{"artist":"Mbuzeni","flag":"classified by name search","origin_before":"ZA","origin_after":"ZA","basis":"footprint: no MusicBrainz Spotify link; charts in South Africa, isiZulu title, co-credited with Sminofu","decision_changed":0},{"artist":"Cheb Houssem","flag":"classified by name search","origin_before":"DZ","origin_after":"DZ","basis":"footprint: no MusicBrainz Spotify link; rai repertoire charting on Morocco's list","decision_changed":0},{"artist":"Houari Dauphin","flag":"classified by name search","origin_before":"DZ","origin_after":"DZ","basis":"footprint: no MusicBrainz Spotify link; rai repertoire charting on Morocco's list","decision_changed":0}]}