{"id":10056,"slug":"spotify-alltime-african-artists-top-1000","title":"African artists in Spotify\u2019s 1,000 most-streamed, November 2026","source":"Spotify all-time artist leaderboard as collected by the Afrobeats Wire data desk on 20 dates, 11 October to 11 November 2026; origin resolved against MusicBrainz","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Population: the 3,000 artists on Spotify\u2019s all-time artist leaderboard, captured by this desk on 20 dates from 11 October to 11 November 2026. Ranked by lifetime streams on the 11 November 2026 capture and cut at rank 1,000, where the threshold is 4,058.6 million lifetime streams. Origin for every one of those 1,000 artists was resolved by MusicBrainz identity match: the artist\u2019s Spotify URL was looked up as a MusicBrainz url relation, which returns one artist MBID, and the country was taken from that artist record. No name-search fallback was used at this cut; all 1,000 resolved by Spotify-URL identity or were already in the desk roster under the same identity method. Africa is the 54-member ISO set used by the desk roster. accrual_31d_m is the measured change in the lifetime figure between the 11 October and 11 November captures, not the leaderboard\u2019s own reported daily average. Excluded: Veigh, whose Spotify URL is attached on MusicBrainz to a Mozambican artist record while the Brazilian trap artist of the same name holds a separate record; the charting footprint of that Spotify ID is Brazil and Portugal only, with a Brazilian Portuguese title. Akon is retained because the MusicBrainz artist record gives country Senegal, and the alternative reading is carried in the robustness scenarios instead. Lead and feature credit columns are the leaderboard\u2019s own split of the lifetime figure. 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":"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":"medium","retrieved":"2026-11-12 14:13:20","n":8,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"rank","label":"Board rank","type":"number"},{"key":"artist","label":"Artist","type":"text"},{"key":"country","label":"Origin","type":"text"},{"key":"lifetime_streams","label":"Lifetime streams","type":"number"},{"key":"accrual_31d","label":"Streams added in 31 days","type":"number"},{"key":"lead_credit_streams","label":"Lead credit streams","type":"number"},{"key":"feature_credit_streams","label":"Feature credit streams","type":"number"},{"key":"accrual_pct_of_bank","label":"31-day accrual as % of own bank","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"rank":116,"artist":"Akon","country":"Senegal","lifetime_streams":19694900000,"accrual_31d":297400000,"lead_credit_streams":8538900000,"feature_credit_streams":11156000000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":1.51},{"rank":273,"artist":"Wizkid","country":"Nigeria","lifetime_streams":11811900000,"accrual_31d":138800000,"lead_credit_streams":3499900000,"feature_credit_streams":8312000000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":1.18},{"rank":293,"artist":"Burna Boy","country":"Nigeria","lifetime_streams":11231100000,"accrual_31d":177900000,"lead_credit_streams":6385800000,"feature_credit_streams":4845300000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":1.58},{"rank":529,"artist":"Rema","country":"Nigeria","lifetime_streams":6882400000,"accrual_31d":117400000,"lead_credit_streams":5103400000,"feature_credit_streams":1779000000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":1.71},{"rank":570,"artist":"Tems","country":"Nigeria","lifetime_streams":6421200000,"accrual_31d":151300000,"lead_credit_streams":2749800000,"feature_credit_streams":3671400000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":2.36},{"rank":785,"artist":"Tyla","country":"South Africa","lifetime_streams":4989300000,"accrual_31d":99400000,"lead_credit_streams":4309100000,"feature_credit_streams":680200000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":1.99},{"rank":852,"artist":"Asake","country":"Nigeria","lifetime_streams":4646100000,"accrual_31d":161500000,"lead_credit_streams":3320900000,"feature_credit_streams":1325200000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":3.48},{"rank":975,"artist":"Ayra Starr","country":"Nigeria","lifetime_streams":4150500000,"accrual_31d":85900000,"lead_credit_streams":1858300000,"feature_credit_streams":2292200000,"accrual_pct_of_bank":2.07}]}