{"id":5828,"slug":"south-africa-panel-composition-27-september-2026","title":"What drove South Africa’s one-day gain on this desk’s 50-artist Spotify panel, 26 to 27 September 2026","source":"This desk's spotify-african-artists-global panel, collected 26 and 27 September 2026, cross-checked against South Africa's own Spotify daily Top 200 lead-artist chart entries","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"This desk's 50-artist global African panel (spotify-african-artists-global) was captured before and after the 27 September 2026 refresh, giving country totals for both days from this session's own brief output. Six South African-origin artists appeared on the panel on both 26 and 27 September; two appeared for the first time on 27 September. individual 26 September streams for Udumakahle and Loatinover Pounds are not available because neither artist was inside the panel's top-50 cutoff that day; this is disclosed as 'new to panel', not zero. Individual 26 September streams for DJ Zinhle, Tman Xpress and Zee Nxumalo are taken directly from that day's panel output (DJ Zinhle's figure cross-checked against her lead-artist entry on South Africa's own Spotify daily Top 200). Kabza De Small, DJ Maphorisa and TxC did not individually appear in the 26 September top-10, risers or fallers lists this desk captured that day, so their three streams counts are given as a single combined row, derived by subtracting the five individually-verified artists from South Africa's verified 26 September country total of 690,484 streams. All 27 September figures are direct panel readings.","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":"2026-09-27 01:56:18","n":6,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"status","label":"Panel status, 27 Sep","type":"text"},{"key":"streams_26sep","label":"Streams, 26 Sep","type":"number"},{"key":"streams_27sep","label":"Streams, 27 Sep","type":"number"},{"key":"change_streams","label":"Change in streams","type":"number"},{"key":"share_of_za_increase_pct","label":"Share of South Africa's total increase, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"artist":"Udumakahle","status":"new to panel","streams_26sep":0,"streams_27sep":198202,"change_streams":198202,"share_of_za_increase_pct":39.73},{"artist":"Loatinover Pounds","status":"new to panel","streams_26sep":0,"streams_27sep":159897,"change_streams":159897,"share_of_za_increase_pct":32.05},{"artist":"DJ Zinhle","status":"continuing, verified individually","streams_26sep":72252,"streams_27sep":190378,"change_streams":118126,"share_of_za_increase_pct":23.68},{"artist":"Kabza De Small, DJ Maphorisa and TxC (combined)","status":"continuing, combined by subtraction","streams_26sep":359226,"streams_27sep":376194,"change_streams":16968,"share_of_za_increase_pct":3.4},{"artist":"Zee Nxumalo","status":"continuing, verified individually","streams_26sep":95862,"streams_27sep":99766,"change_streams":3904,"share_of_za_increase_pct":0.78},{"artist":"Tman Xpress","status":"continuing, verified individually","streams_26sep":163144,"streams_27sep":164943,"change_streams":1799,"share_of_za_increase_pct":0.36}]}