{"id":4478,"slug":"south-africa-chart-gain-entrant-vs-existing-mondays-2026","title":"South Africa’s African-origin Spotify chart gain, new entrants versus already-charting artists, 17 August to 7 September 2026","source":"Recomputed from this desk's south-africa-chart-african-stream-change-by-artist-mondays-2026 dataset","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Split of the 25 African-origin artist rows in south-africa-chart-african-stream-change-by-artist-mondays-2026 into two groups: rows whose streams_17_aug is exactly 0, meaning the artist held no place on South Africa's daily Spotify chart on 17 August, and rows that already held a chart place that day. n_rows counts rows in each group; n_gaining counts rows within each group whose gain_streams is greater than 0. gain_streams sums gain_streams (gross increase, declines zeroed) for each group and share_of_gain_pct expresses it as a share of the 296,602-stream combined gross increase across all 25 rows. A row with 0 streams on 17 August is absent from that day's chart, which this desk's Spotify chart collector reads only down to position 200; it is not evidence the artist had zero listeners that day, only that they were not inside the top 200. This is a two-date comparison, not a trend, and both endpoints are Mondays so the comparison holds day of week fixed.","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":"2026-09-14 07:56:35","n":2,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Group","type":"text"},{"key":"n_rows","label":"Rows","type":"number"},{"key":"n_gaining","label":"Of which gaining","type":"number"},{"key":"gain_streams","label":"Gross gain, streams","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_gain_pct","label":"Share of gross gain, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"group":"New entrants (absent from the 17 Aug chart)","n_rows":8,"n_gaining":8,"gain_streams":148470,"share_of_gain_pct":50.06},{"group":"Already on the 17 Aug chart","n_rows":17,"n_gaining":11,"gain_streams":148132,"share_of_gain_pct":49.94}]}