{"id":2705,"slug":"spotify-african-market-absence-series","title":"Spotify markets carrying zero African-origin artist, eight collection dates","source":"Computed from this desk's african-presence-over-time series, itself built from kworb.net Spotify daily country charts and MusicBrainz origin data","source_url":"https:\/\/kworb.net\/spotify\/","source_type":"computed","method":"For each of the eight dates this desk has collected the full 75-market Spotify daily chart panel, markets_charting (the count of country charts carrying at least one African-origin lead artist, from the registered african-presence-over-time dataset) is subtracted from 75, the total number of country charts Spotify publishes, excluding the aggregated Global chart. absent_share_pct is absent_markets divided by 75, as a percentage to one decimal place. This does not identify which markets flipped, only how many, because individual daily market snapshots are pruned and only the aggregate series persists.","unit":"markets","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":"2026-08-27 20:13:28","n":8,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"date","label":"Date","type":"text"},{"key":"markets_charting","label":"Markets with an African artist","type":"number"},{"key":"absent_markets","label":"Markets with none","type":"number"},{"key":"absent_share_pct","label":"Share of the 75 with none, %","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"date":"2026-08-13","markets_charting":12,"absent_markets":63,"absent_share_pct":84},{"date":"2026-08-17","markets_charting":11,"absent_markets":64,"absent_share_pct":85.3},{"date":"2026-08-20","markets_charting":11,"absent_markets":64,"absent_share_pct":85.3},{"date":"2026-08-21","markets_charting":11,"absent_markets":64,"absent_share_pct":85.3},{"date":"2026-08-22","markets_charting":11,"absent_markets":64,"absent_share_pct":85.3},{"date":"2026-08-24","markets_charting":12,"absent_markets":63,"absent_share_pct":84},{"date":"2026-08-25","markets_charting":9,"absent_markets":66,"absent_share_pct":88},{"date":"2026-08-27","markets_charting":10,"absent_markets":65,"absent_share_pct":86.7}]}