{"id":9479,"slug":"spotify-chart-capture-headline-figures-oct-nov-2026","title":"Headline figures: what this desk’s Spotify chart panel measures of 12 African artists’ actual daily consumption, 8 October to 5 November 2026","source":"Computed from spotify-chart-capture-by-artist-oct-nov-2026, spotify-chart-capture-by-date-oct-nov-2026, spotify-chart-capture-leave-one-out-oct-nov-2026 and spotify-reported-daily-denominator-check-oct-nov-2026 and spotify-chart-capture-independent-denominator-oct-nov-2026","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"A flat index of every figure quoted in the accompanying article, so each one traces to a single row rather than to arithmetic performed in prose. Rows 7 to 14 are read off or computed from the 12 per-artist rows of spotify-chart-capture-by-artist-oct-nov-2026: the pooled share is the sum of chart_streams over the sum of reported_daily_streams, and the mean is the unweighted average of the 12 per-artist shares, which is a different and larger quantity. Rows 15 and 16 are the minimum and maximum of the 20 daily values in spotify-chart-capture-by-date-oct-nov-2026. Rows 17 and 18 are the minimum and maximum of the 15 scenarios in spotify-chart-capture-leave-one-out-oct-nov-2026. Rows 19 to 21 are the all-artist totals row of spotify-reported-daily-denominator-check-oct-nov-2026. Row 22 is the largest absolute rank_move in the per-artist dataset. Rows 23 to 30 come from spotify-chart-capture-independent-denominator-oct-nov-2026: the minimum, maximum and gap of its capture_pct_independent column, its All 12 artists pooled value, the minimum, maximum and all-artist value of its independent_ratio_pct column, and a count of the distinct values the smallest catalogue in the group took in its cumulative all-time total across the 20 readings.","unit":"","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":"2026-11-08 07:57:11","n":30,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"metric","label":"Figure","type":"text"},{"key":"value","label":"Value","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"metric":"Artists measured on all 20 dates","value":12},{"metric":"Collection dates","value":20},{"metric":"Artist-days measured","value":240},{"metric":"Spotify markets in the chart panel","value":76},{"metric":"Artists on the African panel the 12 were drawn from","value":50},{"metric":"Rows in Spotify's all-time artist table","value":3000},{"metric":"Chart streams measured across 20 dates","value":128044009},{"metric":"Reported daily streams across the same 20 dates","value":832390000},{"metric":"Pooled share of reported daily streams the chart panel saw","value":15.3827},{"metric":"Lowest share for any one artist","value":2.9094},{"metric":"Highest share for any one artist","value":49.2183},{"metric":"Gap between highest and lowest, percentage points","value":46.3089},{"metric":"Highest share divided by lowest","value":16.917},{"metric":"Mean of the 12 per-artist shares","value":16.6472},{"metric":"Lowest pooled share on any single date","value":14.0734},{"metric":"Highest pooled share on any single date","value":18.1787},{"metric":"Lowest pooled share after removing one artist or one group","value":7.1673},{"metric":"Highest pooled share after removing one artist or one group","value":19.9028},{"metric":"Consecutive-day observations in the denominator check","value":168},{"metric":"Implied one-day volume as a share of the reported Daily column","value":101.29},{"metric":"Impossible negative one-day differences in the source totals","value":9},{"metric":"Places the chart ranking moves the two largest catalogues","value":7},{"metric":"Lowest capture share on the rescaled denominator","value":3.2614},{"metric":"Highest capture share on the rescaled denominator","value":51.5372},{"metric":"Gap on the rescaled denominator, percentage points","value":48.2758},{"metric":"Pooled capture share on the rescaled denominator","value":16.5249},{"metric":"Lowest per-artist agreement between the two source columns","value":67.33},{"metric":"Highest per-artist agreement between the two source columns","value":114.01},{"metric":"All-artist agreement between the two source columns over 28 days","value":93.09},{"metric":"Distinct values the smallest catalogue's cumulative total took over 20 readings","value":5}]}