{"id":6782,"slug":"south-africa-panel-day-over-day-05-06-october-2026","title":"Every South African artist on Spotify’s African panel, 5 versus 6 October 2026","source":"This desk's spotify-african-artists-global panel build, 5 and 6 October 2026 snapshots (panel-artist-gross-05-october-2026 and spotify-african-artists-global)","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"The seven South African-origin artists present on the 50-artist African panel on 5 October 2026 (panel-artist-gross-05-october-2026) are matched by Spotify artist ID against the 6 October 2026 rebuild of spotify-african-artists-global. Where an artist no longer appears in the 6 October top-50 panel, its 6 October stream count is recorded as 0 and status is 'dropped off panel'. change_pct is (streams_06_oct minus streams_05_oct) divided by streams_05_oct, times 100, so a dropped artist shows -100.0. No row is excluded or estimated.","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":"2026-10-06 07:49:26","n":7,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"streams_05_oct","label":"Streams, 5 October","type":"number"},{"key":"streams_06_oct","label":"Streams, 6 October","type":"number"},{"key":"change_abs","label":"Change, streams","type":"number"},{"key":"change_pct","label":"Change, %","type":"number"},{"key":"status","label":"Status","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"artist":"DJ Zinhle","streams_05_oct":221327,"streams_06_oct":163487,"change_abs":-57840,"change_pct":-26.1,"status":"on panel"},{"artist":"Tman Xpress","streams_05_oct":185324,"streams_06_oct":129059,"change_abs":-56265,"change_pct":-30.4,"status":"on panel"},{"artist":"Kabza De Small","streams_05_oct":183491,"streams_06_oct":85242,"change_abs":-98249,"change_pct":-53.5,"status":"on panel"},{"artist":"DJ Maphorisa","streams_05_oct":143316,"streams_06_oct":111924,"change_abs":-31392,"change_pct":-21.9,"status":"on panel"},{"artist":"Dlala Thukzin","streams_05_oct":116158,"streams_06_oct":0,"change_abs":-116158,"change_pct":-100,"status":"dropped off panel"},{"artist":"Zee Nxumalo","streams_05_oct":106210,"streams_06_oct":0,"change_abs":-106210,"change_pct":-100,"status":"dropped off panel"},{"artist":"TxC","streams_05_oct":74418,"streams_06_oct":65266,"change_abs":-9152,"change_pct":-12.3,"status":"on panel"}]}