{"id":9270,"slug":"shazam-never-charting-persistent-tracks-2026","title":"The 20 most persistent Shazam recordings that never entered the same market\u2019s Apple Music songs top 100, 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 the 20 normalised titles with the highest total market-days on Shazam among those never present on the paired Apple songs top 100 in the same market. market_days sums a title's Shazam days across every market where it is never-charting, so a title on 11 markets for 40 days each scores 440. Title and artist are shown as the chart feed spells them on the first row encountered.","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 07:49:25","n":20,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"title","label":"Recording","type":"text"},{"key":"artist","label":"Credited artist","type":"text"},{"key":"market_days","label":"Shazam market-days","type":"number"},{"key":"markets","label":"Markets","type":"number"},{"key":"market_list","label":"Where","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"title":"Mad over You","artist":"Runtown","market_days":440,"markets":11,"market_list":"CI, CM, DZ, GH, KE, MA, NG, SN, TZ, ZA, ZM"},{"title":"Gut Genug (mit Blumengarten & Shirin David)","artist":"KITSCHKRIEG, Blumengarten & Shirin David","market_days":414,"markets":13,"market_list":"CI, CM, DZ, GH, KE, MA, MZ, NG, SN, TZ, UG, ZA, ZM"},{"title":"Pink Blush","artist":"dolly babe","market_days":402,"markets":13,"market_list":"CI, CM, DZ, GH, KE, MA, NG, SN, TN, TZ, UG, ZA, ZM"},{"title":"Sorry I'm Different","artist":"Miracle LRE","market_days":400,"markets":7,"market_list":"CM, GH, KE, NG, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"TRY (DRILL)","artist":"EGNXMUSIC","market_days":349,"markets":6,"market_list":"CM, KE, MZ, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"dont tell your dreams to everybody (feat. LOVIXX)","artist":"LOVIXX STOSLIV","market_days":332,"markets":14,"market_list":"CI, CM, DZ, EG, GH, KE, MA, MZ, NG, SN, TN, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"Chairman","artist":"Premium Emf","market_days":308,"markets":7,"market_list":"CI, CM, GH, KE, NG, UG, ZM"},{"title":"Nuttin Nuh Go So (2025 Remaster)","artist":"Notch","market_days":283,"markets":8,"market_list":"CM, GH, KE, NG, SN, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"\u041a\u0430\u043c\u0438\u043d","artist":"EMIN & JONY","market_days":263,"markets":7,"market_list":"CI, EG, GH, MA, MZ, NG, SN"},{"title":"Aanu Ni","artist":"BisiManuel","market_days":260,"markets":7,"market_list":"CI, CM, GH, KE, NG, SN, ZM"},{"title":"Beni Al (Ta Ki Seni G\u00f6rene Kadar) [Afro House Remix]","artist":"Ankara Echoes","market_days":257,"markets":4,"market_list":"DZ, EG, MA, TN"},{"title":"bye","artist":"Ariana Grande","market_days":245,"markets":4,"market_list":"DZ, EG, MA, SN"},{"title":"FREAKED OUT","artist":"Fat Papi & prodshushy","market_days":237,"markets":8,"market_list":"DZ, EG, KE, MA, SN, TN, UG, ZM"},{"title":"Love Story","artist":"Indila","market_days":226,"markets":7,"market_list":"CI, CM, KE, NG, SN, TZ, UG"},{"title":"PRAY FOR ME","artist":"Sunvera Scott","market_days":220,"markets":9,"market_list":"CI, CM, GH, KE, MZ, NG, TZ, ZA, ZM"},{"title":"Kure Kure","artist":"Magic Wacho","market_days":216,"markets":5,"market_list":"CI, CM, GH, MZ, ZM"},{"title":"Zwiya Deeper (feat. Megadrumz, Dj Skizoh BW & Maq D) [Zwiya Difha]","artist":"Mukololo, Mazet & Lucia Dottie","market_days":213,"markets":5,"market_list":"KE, MZ, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"Hardest Truth","artist":"Jubet","market_days":212,"markets":8,"market_list":"CM, GH, KE, NG, SN, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"AkpakO Bum Bum","artist":"Terry G","market_days":211,"markets":9,"market_list":"CI, CM, GH, KE, NG, SN, TZ, UG, ZM"},{"title":"Lonely","artist":"Akon","market_days":211,"markets":6,"market_list":"CI, CM, MZ, NG, SN, UG"}]}