{"id":5625,"slug":"panel-classification-decisions-25-september-2026","title":"Classification decisions on every flagged row, 25 September 2026","source":"This desk's anomaly check against the 25 September 2026 panel refresh, cross-checked with artist biographies and each artist's own charting footprint","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"The anomalies command flagged 7 rows on the 25 September 2026 collection: origin conflicts, name-search classifications, and rows where an artist has no chart presence on any of the four African home-market charts. Six of the seven are repeat flags already checked and confirmed on the 17 through 24 September collections; those decisions are carried forward unchanged because an artist's documented country of origin does not change between collections. The seventh, Houari Dauphin, replaced Cheb Houssem on this date's queue and was researched fresh: Houari Dauphin is the stage name of Houari Siouani, an Algerian rai singer born 10 May 1971 in Oran, Algeria, whose only African chart presence is on Morocco's own chart; no Algerian daily chart exists on Spotify for him to have charted on instead, matching the pattern already established for Soolking and Cheb Houssem.","unit":"decision","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":"2026-09-25 01:57:54","n":7,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"assigned_country","label":"Assigned country","type":"text"},{"key":"chart_streams_25sep","label":"Chart streams, 25 Sep","type":"number"},{"key":"flag_reason","label":"Flag reason","type":"text"},{"key":"decision","label":"Decision","type":"text"},{"key":"evidence_url","label":"Evidence","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Lege-Cy","assigned_country":"EG","chart_streams_25sep":185738,"flag_reason":"classified by name search","decision":"confirmed 17-24 September, carried forward: charts only on Egypt's own chart","evidence_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/"},{"artist":"Tchubi","assigned_country":"MA","chart_streams_25sep":66853,"flag_reason":"classified by name search","decision":"confirmed 17-24 September, carried forward: charts only on Morocco's own chart","evidence_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/"},{"artist":"Soolking","assigned_country":"DZ","chart_streams_25sep":64806,"flag_reason":"no African chart presence","decision":"confirmed 17-24 September, carried forward: Algerian-French rapper, genuine France-only export, no Algerian daily chart exists to have charted on","evidence_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soolking"},{"artist":"Nabi","assigned_country":"GN","chart_streams_25sep":57658,"flag_reason":"no African chart presence; origin conflict (it vs gn)","decision":"confirmed 17-24 September, carried forward: Guinean-born (Conakry), raised Paris, based Milan; genuine Italy-only export","evidence_url":"https:\/\/www.redbull.com\/it-it\/chi-e-nabi-kichta"},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","assigned_country":"AO","chart_streams_25sep":35498,"flag_reason":"no African chart presence","decision":"confirmed 17-24 September, carried forward: Angolan R&B singer, genuine Portugal export via the Angolan diaspora","evidence_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anselmo_Ralph"},{"artist":"Master Jake","assigned_country":"AO","chart_streams_25sep":10983,"flag_reason":"no African chart presence","decision":"confirmed 17-24 September, carried forward: born Lobito, Benguela, Angola; genuine Portugal export via the Angolan diaspora","evidence_url":"https:\/\/www.cmjornal.pt\/cultura\/detalhe\/master_jake_explica_sucesso_de"},{"artist":"Houari Dauphin","assigned_country":"DZ","chart_streams_25sep":5365,"flag_reason":"classified by name search","decision":"new to the queue, researched fresh: stage name of Houari Siouani, Algerian rai singer born 10 May 1971 in Oran, Algeria; charts only on Morocco's own chart, no Algerian daily chart exists to have charted on instead","evidence_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Houari_Dauphin"}]}