{"id":3758,"slug":"south-africa-chart-african-stream-change-by-artist-aug-sep-2026","title":"Where South Africa’s Spotify chart increase in African streams came from, 13 August to 7 September 2026","source":"kworb.net Spotify daily country charts, artist origin from MusicBrainz and this desk's editorial roster","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Every lead artist of African origin who appeared on South Africa's Spotify daily Top 200 on 2026-08-13, on 2026-09-07, or on both. streams_13_aug and streams_7_sep sum that artist's chart streams across all of their entries on that day's Top 200; a zero means the artist did not appear on that day's chart at all, not that nobody listened. change_streams is the difference. gain_streams is the size of the increase and is zero for any artist who declined, so the column sums to the gross increase rather than the net; share_of_gain_pct and cumulative_share_pct are each artist's share of that gross increase, sorted largest first. Two dates is a comparison, not a trend, and a single day's Top 200 is a snapshot of one day's charted consumption: an artist can leave this table because a release aged out of the chart, because of a chart reshuffle, or because of a collection gap, and this dataset cannot distinguish between them. No cause is claimed for any individual movement. This desk's Spotify chart collector retains the most recent full 76-market snapshots of the daily Top 200 as published by kworb.net. This dataset was built on 2026-09-07 from every snapshot on disk: 2026-08-13, 2026-08-17, 2026-08-20, 2026-08-21, 2026-08-22, 2026-08-24, 2026-08-25, 2026-08-27, 2026-08-28, 2026-08-30, 2026-08-31, 2026-09-01, 2026-09-02, 2026-09-04, 2026-09-06 and 2026-09-07. Gaps between listed dates are collection gaps, not zeros, and the intervals are uneven. For each date and each of the four markets Spotify publishes a daily chart for in Africa (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, South Africa), every entry on that market's Top 200 was summed, and the portion credited to lead artists whose registered country of origin is on the African continent was divided by the market total. Origin is applied as currently registered in this desk's roster, to every date, so a later correction moves the whole series rather than only future points. Two artists flagged as classified by name search and relevant to these four charts, Samthing Soweto (South Africa) and Cheb Amrou (Morocco), were checked against their charting recordings and confirmed by published biography before this build. Chart streams are a sample of consumption inside a market's daily Top 200, not a full accounting of streaming in that market, and a share of the Top 200 is not a share of a country's listening. On 2026-08-28 the upstream source served a chart identical in every position, track and stream count to 2026-08-27 for 44 of 76 markets, Egypt among them; Nigeria, Morocco and South Africa differed. That date is retained and disclosed rather than dropped, and it registers as a flat step for Egypt, not a fall.","unit":"streams","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":"2026-09-07 00:00:00","n":27,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"country","label":"Origin","type":"text"},{"key":"streams_13_aug","label":"Chart streams, 13 Aug","type":"number"},{"key":"streams_7_sep","label":"Chart streams, 7 Sep","type":"number"},{"key":"change_streams","label":"Change","type":"number"},{"key":"gain_streams","label":"Size of increase","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_gain_pct","label":"Share of gross increase, %","type":"number"},{"key":"cumulative_share_pct","label":"Cumulative share, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Kabza De Small","country":"ZA","streams_13_aug":37646,"streams_7_sep":115239,"change_streams":77593,"gain_streams":77593,"share_of_gain_pct":11.2,"cumulative_share_pct":11.2},{"artist":"Tman 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