{"id":5559,"slug":"spotify-african-market-footprint-run-lengths-2026","title":"Longest unbroken runs of Spotify’s African chart footprint count, 13 August to 24 September 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's registered african-presence-over-time series","source_url":"https:\/\/afrobeatswire.com","source_type":"computed","method":"african-presence-over-time records markets_charting, the count of Spotify's 75 published daily country charts carrying at least one African-origin lead artist, for each of the 27 dates this desk has collected the panel between 13 August and 24 September 2026. This dataset groups those 27 dates into consecutive runs of identical markets_charting values and reports each run's length, in collection dates (not calendar days, since collections are not taken daily), and its start and end date. Sorted longest first.","unit":"collection dates","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":"2026-09-24 13:52:25","n":13,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"value","label":"Markets charting","type":"number"},{"key":"run_length","label":"Run length, collection dates","type":"number"},{"key":"start_date","label":"Run start","type":"text"},{"key":"end_date","label":"Run end","type":"text"}],"rows":[{"value":9,"run_length":7,"start_date":"2026-09-16","end_date":"2026-09-24"},{"value":11,"run_length":4,"start_date":"2026-08-17","end_date":"2026-08-22"},{"value":8,"run_length":4,"start_date":"2026-09-12","end_date":"2026-09-15"},{"value":10,"run_length":3,"start_date":"2026-08-27","end_date":"2026-08-30"},{"value":12,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-08-13","end_date":"2026-08-13"},{"value":12,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-08-24","end_date":"2026-08-24"},{"value":9,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-08-25","end_date":"2026-08-25"},{"value":11,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-08-31","end_date":"2026-08-31"},{"value":9,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-09-01","end_date":"2026-09-01"},{"value":10,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-09-02","end_date":"2026-09-02"},{"value":9,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-09-04","end_date":"2026-09-04"},{"value":8,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-09-06","end_date":"2026-09-06"},{"value":9,"run_length":1,"start_date":"2026-09-07","end_date":"2026-09-07"}]}