{"id":8440,"slug":"south-africa-home-chart-share-series-17aug-29oct-2026","title":"South Africa’s Spotify home-chart African share, six readings, 17 August to 29 October 2026","source":"This desk's registered south-africa-home-chart-share-series-17aug-22oct-2026 dataset (first five readings, unchanged) plus a sixth reading computed today by rerunning this desk's market-share method against South Africa's Spotify daily Top 200 on 29 October 2026 and the current MusicBrainz-resolved roster","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"Extends this desk's five-reading south-africa-home-chart-share-series-17aug-22oct-2026 dataset with one more reading, 29 October 2026, a Thursday exactly seven days after the prior reading (also a Thursday, 22 October), so the newest step is a matched same-weekday comparison rather than a gap of unknown length. The new reading was computed by summing streams on South Africa's Spotify daily Top 200 (source=spotify, chart_type=songs, country_code=za in this desk's chart_entry\/chart_snapshot store) on 29 October 2026, classifying each charting artist African or not against the current afw_data_roster (MusicBrainz-resolved), and dividing African-credited streams by the chart total. Independently recomputing the prior reading with the same method against the stored 22 October snapshot returns 18.63 per cent, matching the already-registered figure exactly, which is the check this piece relies on to trust the new sixth point. change_pts_vs_prev is each reading's share minus the immediately preceding reading; change_pts_vs_first and change_pct_vs_first are measured against the 17 August baseline. All six readings measure South Africa's own daily Top 200 chart streams, not total platform consumption in South Africa, and origin as currently registered.","unit":"pct","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":"2026-10-29 19:53:00","n":6,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"date","label":"Date","type":"text"},{"key":"african_share_pct","label":"African share of South Africa's own chart, %","type":"number"},{"key":"non_african_share_pct","label":"Non-African share of South Africa's own chart, %","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pts_vs_prev","label":"Change vs previous reading, points","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pts_vs_first","label":"Change vs 17 August, points","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct_vs_first","label":"Relative change vs 17 August, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"date":"2026-08-17","african_share_pct":11.22,"non_african_share_pct":88.78,"change_pts_vs_prev":0,"change_pts_vs_first":0,"change_pct_vs_first":0},{"date":"2026-08-24","african_share_pct":13.62,"non_african_share_pct":86.38,"change_pts_vs_prev":2.4,"change_pts_vs_first":2.4,"change_pct_vs_first":21.39},{"date":"2026-08-31","african_share_pct":13.7,"non_african_share_pct":86.3,"change_pts_vs_prev":0.08,"change_pts_vs_first":2.48,"change_pct_vs_first":22.1},{"date":"2026-09-07","african_share_pct":15.73,"non_african_share_pct":84.27,"change_pts_vs_prev":2.03,"change_pts_vs_first":4.51,"change_pct_vs_first":40.2},{"date":"2026-10-22","african_share_pct":18.63,"non_african_share_pct":81.37,"change_pts_vs_prev":2.9,"change_pts_vs_first":7.41,"change_pct_vs_first":66.04},{"date":"2026-10-29","african_share_pct":17.9,"non_african_share_pct":82.1,"change_pts_vs_prev":-0.73,"change_pts_vs_first":6.68,"change_pct_vs_first":59.54}]}