{"id":6544,"slug":"panel-concentration-snapshot-03-october-2026","title":"Spotify’s 50-artist African panel split into five mutually exclusive groups, 3 October 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's spotify-african-artists-global dataset (kworb.net Spotify daily Top 200, 75-market panel, 3 October 2026 collection)","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Took the 3 October 2026 collection of spotify-african-artists-global (50 rows, 18,193,006 daily chart streams total) and split it into five groups that do not overlap and sum exactly to the panel total. 'Top 3 Nigerian artists' is Seyi Vibez, BNXN and Asake, the three highest rows in the source dataset, all Nigerian-origin. 'Rest of Nigeria' is Nigeria's remaining 19 artists (Nigeria's country total minus those three). Egypt, South Africa and Morocco are each that country's full artist cohort with no subtraction, because none of the top 3 rows belongs to them. share_pct is each group's daily_streams as a percentage of the 18,193,006 panel total. gap_vs_egypt_streams is populated only on the Top 3 Nigerian artists row: their streams minus Egypt's full-cohort streams (6,831,356 minus 5,065,155), left null on every other row since it is a comparison defined relative to that one group. A reproduction needs only spotify-african-artists-global and arithmetic: group the 50 rows by origin country, pull out the three highest-streaming Nigerian rows as their own group, sum the rest of Nigeria separately, then subtract Egypt's total from the Top 3 group's total.","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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-10-03 19:47:20","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Group","type":"text"},{"key":"artists","label":"Artists in group","type":"number"},{"key":"streams","label":"Daily chart streams","type":"number"},{"key":"share_pct","label":"Share of 50-artist panel, %","type":"number"},{"key":"gap_vs_egypt_streams","label":"Gap vs Egypt's full cohort, streams","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"group":"Top 3 Nigerian artists (Seyi Vibez, BNXN, Asake)","artists":3,"streams":6831356,"share_pct":37.55,"gap_vs_egypt_streams":1766201},{"group":"Rest of Nigeria (19 other artists)","artists":19,"streams":5186515,"share_pct":28.51,"gap_vs_egypt_streams":null},{"group":"Egypt (19 artists)","artists":19,"streams":5065155,"share_pct":27.84,"gap_vs_egypt_streams":null},{"group":"South Africa (5 artists)","artists":5,"streams":561610,"share_pct":3.09,"gap_vs_egypt_streams":null},{"group":"Morocco (4 artists)","artists":4,"streams":548370,"share_pct":3.01,"gap_vs_egypt_streams":null}]}