{"id":9267,"slug":"shazam-apple-discovery-gap-by-market-2026","title":"Shazam chart slots that never reach the same market\u2019s Apple Music songs top 100, 15 African markets, 16 August to 6 November 2026","source":"This desk's own Shazam and Apple Music daily chart collection (afw_chart_snapshot \/ afw_chart_entry)","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Population: every date on which this desk's chart store holds both a Shazam song chart and an Apple Music songs chart for the same African market, 16 August to 6 November 2026, giving 1044 paired market-days across 15 markets. Apple's songs chart is exactly 100 positions in every one of these markets and Shazam's is 200, so Shazam is truncated to its top 100 before any comparison, making both windows 100 slots wide. Titles are matched on a normalised string: Unicode decomposed and accent-stripped, lowercased, parenthesised or trailing featured-artist credits removed, all remaining punctuation reduced to single spaces. A Shazam slot counts as same-day overlap if its normalised title is anywhere in that market's Apple songs top 100 on that same date, and as never-charting if it is absent from that market's Apple songs top 100 on every date the store holds, including dates with no Shazam chart, which makes the never-charting count conservative. Percentages are computed in this dataset, not in prose. Rows are one per market, sorted by never-charting slots.","unit":"count","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":"2026-11-06 07:49:21","n":15,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"market","label":"Market","type":"text"},{"key":"iso2","label":"ISO","type":"text"},{"key":"days","label":"Paired days","type":"number"},{"key":"shazam_slots","label":"Shazam top-100 slots","type":"number"},{"key":"same_day_slots","label":"On Apple same day","type":"number"},{"key":"same_day_pct","label":"Same-day overlap, %","type":"number"},{"key":"never_slots","label":"Never on Apple top 100","type":"number"},{"key":"never_pct","label":"Never-charting, %","type":"number"},{"key":"distinct_titles","label":"Distinct Shazam titles","type":"number"},{"key":"distinct_never","label":"Distinct never-charting","type":"number"},{"key":"distinct_never_pct","label":"Distinct never-charting, %","type":"number"},{"key":"spotify_chart","label":"Spotify daily chart","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"market":"Uganda","iso2":"UG","days":77,"shazam_slots":7671,"same_day_slots":1420,"same_day_pct":18.51,"never_slots":5561,"never_pct":72.49,"distinct_titles":381,"distinct_never":317,"distinct_never_pct":83.2,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Kenya","iso2":"KE","days":73,"shazam_slots":7292,"same_day_slots":1296,"same_day_pct":17.77,"never_slots":5538,"never_pct":75.95,"distinct_titles":450,"distinct_never":399,"distinct_never_pct":88.67,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Ghana","iso2":"GH","days":70,"shazam_slots":6992,"same_day_slots":1678,"same_day_pct":24,"never_slots":4739,"never_pct":67.78,"distinct_titles":470,"distinct_never":394,"distinct_never_pct":83.83,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Morocco","iso2":"MA","days":70,"shazam_slots":6995,"same_day_slots":1681,"same_day_pct":24.03,"never_slots":4728,"never_pct":67.59,"distinct_titles":449,"distinct_never":369,"distinct_never_pct":82.18,"spotify_chart":"yes"},{"market":"Cote d\u2019Ivoire","iso2":"CI","days":74,"shazam_slots":7395,"same_day_slots":2082,"same_day_pct":28.15,"never_slots":4660,"never_pct":63.02,"distinct_titles":467,"distinct_never":369,"distinct_never_pct":79.01,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Senegal","iso2":"SN","days":69,"shazam_slots":6885,"same_day_slots":1871,"same_day_pct":27.18,"never_slots":4605,"never_pct":66.88,"distinct_titles":454,"distinct_never":361,"distinct_never_pct":79.52,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Mozambique","iso2":"MZ","days":67,"shazam_slots":6640,"same_day_slots":1700,"same_day_pct":25.6,"never_slots":4429,"never_pct":66.7,"distinct_titles":324,"distinct_never":261,"distinct_never_pct":80.56,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Algeria","iso2":"DZ","days":71,"shazam_slots":7081,"same_day_slots":760,"same_day_pct":10.73,"never_slots":4403,"never_pct":62.18,"distinct_titles":475,"distinct_never":347,"distinct_never_pct":73.05,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Nigeria","iso2":"NG","days":65,"shazam_slots":6497,"same_day_slots":1768,"same_day_pct":27.21,"never_slots":4397,"never_pct":67.68,"distinct_titles":463,"distinct_never":371,"distinct_never_pct":80.13,"spotify_chart":"yes"},{"market":"Cameroon","iso2":"CM","days":74,"shazam_slots":7326,"same_day_slots":2122,"same_day_pct":28.97,"never_slots":4349,"never_pct":59.36,"distinct_titles":372,"distinct_never":281,"distinct_never_pct":75.54,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Tanzania","iso2":"TZ","days":65,"shazam_slots":6429,"same_day_slots":1652,"same_day_pct":25.7,"never_slots":4203,"never_pct":65.38,"distinct_titles":433,"distinct_never":334,"distinct_never_pct":77.14,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Zambia","iso2":"ZM","days":66,"shazam_slots":6539,"same_day_slots":1790,"same_day_pct":27.37,"never_slots":4187,"never_pct":64.03,"distinct_titles":389,"distinct_never":306,"distinct_never_pct":78.66,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"Egypt","iso2":"EG","days":69,"shazam_slots":6888,"same_day_slots":2484,"same_day_pct":36.06,"never_slots":4041,"never_pct":58.67,"distinct_titles":392,"distinct_never":308,"distinct_never_pct":78.57,"spotify_chart":"yes"},{"market":"Tunisia","iso2":"TN","days":66,"shazam_slots":6582,"same_day_slots":368,"same_day_pct":5.59,"never_slots":4024,"never_pct":61.14,"distinct_titles":479,"distinct_never":357,"distinct_never_pct":74.53,"spotify_chart":"no"},{"market":"South Africa","iso2":"ZA","days":68,"shazam_slots":6778,"same_day_slots":2038,"same_day_pct":30.07,"never_slots":3988,"never_pct":58.84,"distinct_titles":396,"distinct_never":303,"distinct_never_pct":76.52,"spotify_chart":"yes"}]}