{"id":10064,"slug":"spotify-alltime-capture-shape-nov-2026","title":"Measurement shape of the Spotify all-time leaderboard capture, October to November 2026","source":"Afrobeats Wire data desk collection log for the Spotify all-time artist leaderboard","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Counts describing the collection this week\u2019s figures rest on, recorded so that the sample can be stated in the piece rather than asserted. The desk captured the leaderboard on 20 dates between 11 October and 11 November 2026, 3,000 artists on each date. The two captures used for the accrual arithmetic are 31 days apart. 2,981 of the 3,000 artists on the 11 November capture also appear on the 11 October capture, the remainder having entered the top 3,000 within the window; all 1,000 artists inside the rank cut used here appear in both, so the accrual arithmetic has no entry or exit effect. 1,343 of the 56,957 consecutive artist-to-artist pairs across the 20 captures show the lifetime counter falling rather than rising, which is restatement by the upstream counter and is the reason the window is measured end to end rather than summed across captures. The daily chart panel referenced alongside the leaderboard is 76 published Spotify daily charts, being 75 territory charts plus the global chart, of which one territory, Andorra, failed to collect on the dates used. The desk\u2019s Africa set is 54 ISO country codes. Ten of the 1,343 downward restatements fall on the eight African artists inside rank 1,000; the largest is a fall of 33,400,000 streams on one artist between two adjacent captures.","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":"high","retrieved":"2026-11-12 14:18:39","n":14,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"metric","label":"Metric","type":"text"},{"key":"value","label":"Value","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"metric":"Leaderboard captures held by the desk","value":20},{"metric":"Artists per capture","value":3000},{"metric":"Days between the two captures used","value":31},{"metric":"Rank cut used for origin resolution","value":1000},{"metric":"Artists present in both captures, whole board","value":2981},{"metric":"Artists present in both captures, inside the rank cut","value":1000},{"metric":"Consecutive capture pairs where the lifetime counter fell","value":1343},{"metric":"Consecutive capture pairs in total","value":56957},{"metric":"Daily market charts in the desk panel","value":76},{"metric":"Territory charts in the desk panel, excluding the global chart","value":75},{"metric":"ISO codes in the desk\u2019s Africa set","value":54},{"metric":"Market charts that failed to collect","value":1},{"metric":"Downward restatements among the eight African artists across the 20 captures","value":10},{"metric":"Largest single downward restatement among the eight, in streams","value":33400000}]}