{"id":5621,"slug":"roster-resolution-stagnation-05-to-25-september-2026","title":"This desk’s Spotify roster origin-resolution status, 5 to 25 September 2026","source":"This desk's own artist roster (afw_data_roster), counted directly from the stored option using the same test ($r['country'] === '') the roster resolver's --unresolved flag uses","source_url":"https:\/\/afrobeatswire.com","source_type":"computed","method":"The roster is every lead artist who has charted in any of the 75 markets this desk tracks since collection began, each carrying a country of origin resolved against MusicBrainz (falling back to a manual override with published evidence, or left unresolved if neither placed the artist). This desk published the 5 and 15 September figures on 15 September 2026 (roster-resolution-status-15-september-2026). This dataset adds a fourth point, counted the same way from the roster's live state after the 25 September 2026 panel refresh (wp afw-data refresh), which runs build_roster() and resolves every new artist ID added since the prior refresh before the count is taken; 'unresolved' therefore means MusicBrainz was queried and returned no usable match, not merely 'not yet attempted'. build_roster() only ever writes a country for an artist ID new to the roster; it does not revisit or clear an ID already assigned one, so the unresolved count cannot fall except through a manual roster --set override.","unit":"artists","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":"2026-09-25 01:53:37","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"date","label":"Date","type":"text"},{"key":"label","label":"Point","type":"text"},{"key":"total_roster","label":"Charting artists on roster","type":"number"},{"key":"unresolved","label":"Unresolved-origin artists","type":"number"},{"key":"unresolved_pct","label":"Unresolved share, %","type":"number"},{"key":"african","label":"Resolved to an African country","type":"number"},{"key":"african_pct","label":"African share, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"date":"2026-09-05","label":"5 September (baseline)","total_roster":4908,"unresolved":61,"unresolved_pct":1.2,"african":119,"african_pct":2.4},{"date":"2026-09-15","label":"15 September, before that day's corrections","total_roster":5386,"unresolved":1912,"unresolved_pct":35.5,"african":129,"african_pct":2.4},{"date":"2026-09-15","label":"15 September, after that day's corrections","total_roster":5386,"unresolved":1904,"unresolved_pct":35.4,"african":136,"african_pct":2.5},{"date":"2026-09-25","label":"25 September (this collection)","total_roster":5728,"unresolved":2052,"unresolved_pct":35.82,"african":145,"african_pct":2.53}]}