{"id":6052,"slug":"panel-classification-decisions-29-september-2026","title":"Classification decisions on every flagged row of this desk’s Spotify panel, 29 September 2026","source":"This desk's anomaly check on the 28 September 2026 panel, resolved against named external evidence","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Every row the desk's anomalies check flagged before publication, with the decision taken and the evidence it rests on. All three flags are the same pattern: an African-origin artist whose entire measured Spotify chart footprint sits outside Africa, which the check flags as \"no African chart presence\" and which is in fact the export behaviour this desk reports on. Each origin carries a manual override with a named source already recorded in the roster; no origin was changed for this piece.","unit":"","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":"2026-09-29 07:50:35","n":3,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"origin","label":"Origin held","type":"text"},{"key":"charts","label":"Charts appeared on","type":"text"},{"key":"flag","label":"Flag raised","type":"text"},{"key":"decision","label":"Decision","type":"text"},{"key":"evidence","label":"Evidence","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Soolking","origin":"DZ","charts":"FR","flag":"no African chart presence","decision":"Kept as Algerian. Algeria has no published Spotify daily chart, so a France-only footprint is the expected shape, not an error.","evidence":"https:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/artist\/530a9937-4229-4d7e-8457-4853d7d5dd7a"},{"artist":"Anselmo Ralph","origin":"AO","charts":"PT","flag":"no African chart presence","decision":"Kept as Angolan. Angola has no published Spotify daily chart and a Portugal-only footprint is genuine export.","evidence":"https:\/\/musicbrainz.org\/artist\/e98df8be-d2f3-4055-98fa-45b873ebf655"},{"artist":"Master Jake","origin":"AO","charts":"PT","flag":"no African chart presence","decision":"Kept as Angolan on the manual override already recorded in the roster. Same pattern as Anselmo Ralph.","evidence":"https:\/\/www.afrocharts.com\/artist?id=c665b0a064"}]}