{"id":7964,"slug":"panel-recording-yield-ratio-leave-one-out-23-october-2026","title":"Does Nigeria\u2019s per-recording lead over Morocco survive losing its biggest recording holders, 23 October 2026","source":"This desk's own spotify-african-artists-global panel for 23 October 2026","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"The headline rests on one ratio: Nigerian panel artists' chart streams per distinct charting recording against Moroccan panel artists'. This recomputes that ratio with the rows most able to drive it removed. Scenario two drops the single artist holding the most charting recordings in each of the two cohorts, scenario three drops the three largest recording holders in each, and scenario four drops every artist on the panel charting in more than one market, which removes the bias created by deduplicating recordings across markets while summing streams across them. Rows are dropped from each country's own cohort independently, so each scenario compares like with like. Nigeria's largest recording holder by recordings is Asake at 21, not its largest artist by streams. Removing rows is not a claim that they should be removed; it is a measure of how much of the finding they carry.","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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-10-23 07:54:06","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scenario","label":"Scenario","type":"text"},{"key":"nigeria_recordings","label":"Nigeria recordings","type":"number"},{"key":"nigeria_streams_per_recording","label":"Nigeria streams per recording","type":"number"},{"key":"morocco_recordings","label":"Morocco recordings","type":"number"},{"key":"morocco_streams_per_recording","label":"Morocco streams per recording","type":"number"},{"key":"ratio_nigeria_to_morocco","label":"Nigeria as a multiple of Morocco","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"scenario":"All 50 panel artists","nigeria_recordings":134,"nigeria_streams_per_recording":69427,"morocco_recordings":52,"morocco_streams_per_recording":11595,"ratio_nigeria_to_morocco":5.99},{"scenario":"Excluding each country\u2019s largest recording holder (Asake, ElGrandeToto)","nigeria_recordings":113,"nigeria_streams_per_recording":71067,"morocco_recordings":33,"morocco_streams_per_recording":13461,"ratio_nigeria_to_morocco":5.28},{"scenario":"Excluding each country\u2019s three largest recording holders","nigeria_recordings":79,"nigeria_streams_per_recording":61320,"morocco_recordings":12,"morocco_streams_per_recording":12937,"ratio_nigeria_to_morocco":4.74},{"scenario":"Excluding every artist charting in more than one market","nigeria_recordings":131,"nigeria_streams_per_recording":69538,"morocco_recordings":52,"morocco_streams_per_recording":11595,"ratio_nigeria_to_morocco":6}]}