{"id":8840,"slug":"south-africa-panel-artist-gains-30oct-02nov-2026","title":"Every South African artist on this desk’s Spotify panel on both 30 October and 2 November 2026","source":"This desk's chart_entry\/chart_snapshot store (source=spotify, chart_type=songs, country_code in za,ng) matched against this desk's africa-global 50-artist panel","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"This desk's africa-global 50-artist panel carried five South African artists, DJ Zinhle, Kabza De Small, Tman Xpress, DJ Maphorisa and TxC, in both its build of 30 October 2026 and its build of 2 November 2026. This is every South African artist the panel held on both dates, not a filtered selection of the biggest movers: two further South African artists on the 2 November panel, Dlala Thukzin and Zee Nxumalo, are excluded because they did not appear in the 30 October build, so no prior-reading comparison exists for them. For each of the five included artists, streams_30oct and streams_02nov are the sum of that artist's streams across every track credited to them on the Spotify Top 200 songs chart of the market(s) where they charted that date (South Africa for all five; DJ Maphorisa also charts a separate track in Nigeria). Every per-artist 2 November total was checked against the registered africa-global panel's own daily_streams column and matches it exactly (DJ Zinhle 441,335; Kabza De Small 167,251; Tman Xpress 163,894; DJ Maphorisa 135,709; TxC 95,781), confirming the chart_entry join reproduces the panel's own aggregation. change_streams is streams_02nov minus streams_30oct; change_pct is change_streams divided by streams_30oct.","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":"2026-11-03 01:57:09","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"markets","label":"Charting market(s)","type":"text"},{"key":"streams_30oct","label":"Streams, 30 October","type":"number"},{"key":"streams_02nov","label":"Streams, 2 November","type":"number"},{"key":"change_streams","label":"Change, streams","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"DJ Zinhle","markets":"South Africa","streams_30oct":215989,"streams_02nov":441335,"change_streams":225346,"change_pct":104.3},{"artist":"Kabza De Small","markets":"South Africa","streams_30oct":91955,"streams_02nov":167251,"change_streams":75296,"change_pct":81.9},{"artist":"Tman Xpress","markets":"South Africa","streams_30oct":74924,"streams_02nov":163894,"change_streams":88970,"change_pct":118.7},{"artist":"DJ Maphorisa","markets":"South Africa, Nigeria","streams_30oct":101462,"streams_02nov":135709,"change_streams":34247,"change_pct":33.8},{"artist":"TxC","markets":"South Africa","streams_30oct":80823,"streams_02nov":95781,"change_streams":14958,"change_pct":18.5}]}