{"id":5899,"slug":"panel-classification-decisions-28-september-2026","title":"Classification decisions on every flagged row of this desk’s Spotify panel, 28 September 2026","source":"This desk's anomaly check, resolved against MusicBrainz relationship lookups and named secondary sources","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Every row the anomalies check flagged on 28 September 2026 before publication, with the decision taken and the evidence it rests on. For each row the Spotify artist ID was submitted to the MusicBrainz URL relationship endpoint to read the country field of the artist the ID is actually attached to, and the artist's charting entries were read from this desk's chart snapshot to see which markets and which languages they charted in. streams_on_panel is the artist's summed chart streams on 28 September 2026. One row was changed: the Spotify ID charting in Italy as \"Nabi\" was registered to Guinea but resolves on MusicBrainz to an Italian-French rapper with country IT, so it was reclassified to Italy and leaves the African panel. The other eight were confirmed and pinned with evidence so that they stop resolving by name search. Three remain flagged as having no African chart presence, which is correct rather than wrong: an Algerian charting only in France and Angolans charting only in Portugal are exactly what an export column is supposed to contain.","unit":"streams","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":"2026-09-28 08:05:11","n":9,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"flag","label":"Flag raised","type":"text"},{"key":"streams_on_panel","label":"Chart streams, 28 Sep","type":"number"},{"key":"decision","label":"Decision","type":"text"},{"key":"evidence","label":"Evidence","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Nabi","flag":"no African chart presence; origin conflict (it vs gn)","streams_on_panel":60269,"decision":"Changed from Guinea to Italy; leaves the African panel","evidence":"MusicBrainz URL relationship for the Spotify ID returns artist af127c1f, country IT, disambiguated as Italian-French rapper Nabi Kichta"},{"artist":"Seyi Vibez","flag":"origin conflict (gh vs ng)","streams_on_panel":3383295,"decision":"Confirmed Nigeria; MusicBrainz country field of GH overridden","evidence":"Wikipedia: born Balogun Afolabi Oluwaloseyi, Nigerian singer; all 21 charting entries are on Nigeria's chart"},{"artist":"Lege-Cy","flag":"classified by name search","streams_on_panel":219909,"decision":"Confirmed Egypt and pinned","evidence":"Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform artist page; seven Arabic-language entries, Egypt chart only, Egyptian collaborators"},{"artist":"Soolking","flag":"no African chart presence","streams_on_panel":70969,"decision":"Confirmed Algeria and pinned; correctly an export row","evidence":"MusicBrainz artist 530a9937, country DZ, Algerian rapper Abderraouf Derradji; charts in France only"},{"artist":"Tchubi","flag":"classified by name search","streams_on_panel":65564,"decision":"Confirmed Morocco and pinned","evidence":"Five Darija-language entries on Morocco's chart only, lead single credited with Casablanca band Hoba Hoba Spirit"},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","flag":"no African chart presence","streams_on_panel":36589,"decision":"Confirmed Angola and pinned; correctly an export row","evidence":"MusicBrainz artist e98df8be, country AO; two Portuguese-language entries on Portugal's chart"},{"artist":"Udumakahle","flag":"classified by name search","streams_on_panel":21349,"decision":"Confirmed South Africa and pinned","evidence":"South African maskandi artist; charting entry is isiZulu and credited with KwaZulu-Natal duo Shwi noMtekhala"},{"artist":"Dj NTK","flag":"classified by name search","streams_on_panel":18879,"decision":"Confirmed South Africa and pinned","evidence":"Charting entry credited with Prince Benza, Makhadzi Entertainment and Team Mosha, all Limpopo acts, on a South African label"},{"artist":"Master Jake","flag":"no African chart presence","streams_on_panel":11864,"decision":"Confirmed Angola and pinned; correctly an export row","evidence":"MusicBrainz artist 110d2041, country AO, kizomba; charting entry is on Portugal's chart"}]}