{"id":10063,"slug":"spotify-alltime-africa-by-rank-depth","title":"Where African artists appear on Spotify\u2019s all-time artist leaderboard, 11 November 2026","source":"Spotify all-time artist leaderboard as collected by the Afrobeats Wire data desk, 11 November 2026 capture","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"The leaderboard\u2019s top 3,000 artists on the 11 November 2026 capture, ranked by lifetime streams and cut at five depths. threshold_m is the lifetime stream figure of the last artist inside each cut. african_artists counts artists resolved to one of the desk\u2019s 54 African ISO codes by MusicBrainz identity match on the Spotify artist URL. Origin was resolved for every artist down to rank 1,000, so the counts are complete at each cut shown and nothing deeper is claimed. Veigh is excluded: the Spotify URL that carries that name on the leaderboard is attached on MusicBrainz to a Mozambican artist record, while a separate record exists for the Brazilian trap artist, and the Spotify ID charts in Brazil and Portugal only. african_per_1000_artists restates the count as a rate so the cuts are comparable. 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":"count","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 14:13:25","n":5,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"rank_cut","label":"Board rank cut","type":"number"},{"key":"threshold_streams","label":"Lifetime streams at the cut","type":"number"},{"key":"african_artists","label":"African artists inside the cut","type":"number"},{"key":"african_per_1000_artists","label":"African artists per 1,000 inside the cut","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"rank_cut":100,"threshold_streams":21441600000,"african_artists":0,"african_per_1000_artists":0},{"rank_cut":250,"threshold_streams":12548400000,"african_artists":1,"african_per_1000_artists":4},{"rank_cut":500,"threshold_streams":7340500000,"african_artists":3,"african_per_1000_artists":6},{"rank_cut":750,"threshold_streams":5185600000,"african_artists":5,"african_per_1000_artists":6.7},{"rank_cut":1000,"threshold_streams":4058600000,"african_artists":8,"african_per_1000_artists":8}]}