{"id":10057,"slug":"spotify-alltime-africa-bank-vs-accrual","title":"Africa\u2019s share of Spotify\u2019s all-time top 1,000: banked streams versus new streams","source":"Spotify all-time artist leaderboard as collected by the Afrobeats Wire data desk, 11 October and 11 November 2026 captures","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Denominators are the 1,000 highest-ranked artists on Spotify\u2019s all-time artist leaderboard in the 11 November 2026 capture: 11,449,397.0 million lifetime streams banked, and 133,325.5 million streams added between the 11 October and 11 November captures. All 1,000 artists appear in both captures, so the accrual denominator has no entry or exit effect. bank_per_1000 and accrual_per_1000 express the African subset against those denominators as a rate per 1,000, so that a share below one per cent can be stated to one decimal place without rounding away the finding. growth_31d_pct is the subset\u2019s own 31-day accrual over its own bank, which is what makes the board row comparable. accrual_to_bank_ratio is accrual_per_1000 divided by bank_per_1000: above 1 means the subset is taking a larger share of new listening than of accumulated listening. Scenario rows vary the two contested classifications and drop the largest African accruals. Figures are not deduplicated across credits: the leaderboard counts a feature credit to both artists, so a collaboration between two artists on the board is counted in both their banks, in the African subset and in the denominator alike. Stream columns are stated as whole streams. The leaderboard publishes the lifetime figure to one decimal place in millions, so every stream figure here is that published value multiplied by one million and is precise to the nearest hundred thousand streams, no further.","unit":"percent","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":"2026-11-12 14:13:21","n":6,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"scenario","label":"Scenario","type":"text"},{"key":"artists_n","label":"Artists","type":"number"},{"key":"bank_streams","label":"Lifetime streams","type":"number"},{"key":"bank_per_1000","label":"Banked streams per 1,000 on the board","type":"number"},{"key":"accrual_31d","label":"Streams added in 31 days","type":"number"},{"key":"accrual_per_1000","label":"New streams per 1,000 on the board","type":"number"},{"key":"growth_31d_pct","label":"31-day growth on own bank (%)","type":"number"},{"key":"accrual_to_bank_ratio","label":"New-stream share \/ banked share","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"scenario":"African artists as classified","artists_n":8,"bank_streams":69827400000,"accrual_31d":1229600000,"growth_31d_pct":1.76,"accrual_to_bank_ratio":1.51,"bank_per_1000":6.1,"accrual_per_1000":9.2},{"scenario":"Plus Veigh counted as Mozambican","artists_n":9,"bank_streams":75451400000,"accrual_31d":1405300000,"growth_31d_pct":1.86,"accrual_to_bank_ratio":1.6,"bank_per_1000":6.6,"accrual_per_1000":10.5},{"scenario":"Minus Akon (US begin-area reading)","artists_n":7,"bank_streams":50132500000,"accrual_31d":932200000,"growth_31d_pct":1.86,"accrual_to_bank_ratio":1.6,"bank_per_1000":4.4,"accrual_per_1000":7},{"scenario":"Nigeria only","artists_n":6,"bank_streams":45143200000,"accrual_31d":832800000,"growth_31d_pct":1.84,"accrual_to_bank_ratio":1.58,"bank_per_1000":3.9,"accrual_per_1000":6.2},{"scenario":"Minus the three largest African accruals","artists_n":5,"bank_streams":34255300000,"accrual_31d":592800000,"growth_31d_pct":1.73,"accrual_to_bank_ratio":1.49,"bank_per_1000":3,"accrual_per_1000":4.4},{"scenario":"Board benchmark: all 1,000 artists","artists_n":1000,"bank_streams":11449397000000,"accrual_31d":133325500000,"growth_31d_pct":1.16,"accrual_to_bank_ratio":1,"bank_per_1000":1000,"accrual_per_1000":1000}]}