{"id":6414,"slug":"panel-country-count-robustness-02-october-2026","title":"Robustness of the 2 October 2026 country-count reading: one artist, leave-one-out","source":"Recomputed from panel-country-concentration-02-october-2026 and spotify-african-artists-global","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Leave-one-out test on the country-count reading for 2 October 2026. The full panel has 50 artists across 5 origin countries. Scenario two drops the single row for Soolking, the panel's only Algerian artist, and recomputes over the remaining 49 rows. A fall of one artist from a 50-row panel changing the headline count metric (countries represented) by 20 per cent, against a stream-total change of 0.39 per cent, is the story: the count is far more sensitive to who enters the panel than the money is. The same single-artist, sub-1-per-cent-of-panel-streams mechanic produced a sixth country on 27 September via a different artist (Guinea), recorded in panel-country-concentration-27-september-2026.","unit":"mixed","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":"2026-10-02 01:52:58","n":2,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scenario","label":"Scenario","type":"text"},{"key":"artists_n","label":"Artists","type":"number"},{"key":"countries_n","label":"Countries represented","type":"number"},{"key":"daily_streams_total","label":"Daily streams, total","type":"number"},{"key":"countries_change_pct","label":"Change in country count, %","type":"number"},{"key":"streams_change_pct","label":"Change in stream total, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"scenario":"Full panel, 2 October 2026","artists_n":50,"countries_n":5,"daily_streams_total":16555981,"countries_change_pct":0,"streams_change_pct":0},{"scenario":"Excluding Soolking (sole Algerian row)","artists_n":49,"countries_n":4,"daily_streams_total":16491359,"countries_change_pct":-20,"streams_change_pct":-0.39}]}