{"id":5512,"slug":"south-africa-chart-unresolved-origin-match-status-22-september-2026","title":"South Africa chart unresolved-origin rows split by MusicBrainz match status, 22 September 2026","source":"This desk's afw_data_roster cross-referenced against the 22 September 2026 South Africa chart snapshot","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/country\/za_daily.html","source_type":"computed","method":"Of the 92 unresolved rows in south-africa-chart-unresolved-origin-artists-22-september-2026, each was split by whether the roster holds a MusicBrainz ID (mbid) for that Spotify artist ID at all. no_mbid_match rows have no MusicBrainz entry logged in the roster; the roster genuinely cannot place these. mbid_matched_no_country rows do carry a roster-logged MusicBrainz match (most via a direct Spotify-ID relationship on the MusicBrainz page, a few via a lower-confidence name match) but no country was extracted from that match. Spot checks against MusicBrainz's public API on five of the twenty-two mbid_matched_no_country rows found a mix of causes: some matched MusicBrainz artists have no country recorded upstream either (a genuine source-side gap), one (Focalistic) matches a MusicBrainz entry that does carry a country upstream but the roster did not carry it over, and one (Benzoo) matched, via the lower-confidence name-match method, to an apparently unrelated German artist entry, which is a reason to distrust that Spotify ID's country rather than a reason to fill it in. This dataset does not attempt to resolve which of the twenty-two is which; it only measures how many unresolved rows already have a matched MusicBrainz identity versus how many have none at all.","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":"high","retrieved":"2026-09-24 02:13:12","n":2,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"status","label":"Match status","type":"text"},{"key":"n","label":"Rows","type":"number"},{"key":"streams","label":"Streams","type":"number"},{"key":"pct","label":"Share of unresolved streams, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"status":"No MusicBrainz match logged at all","n":70,"streams":2324531,"pct":67.3},{"status":"MusicBrainz match logged, but no country extracted","n":22,"streams":1131446,"pct":32.7}]}