{"id":7432,"slug":"spotify-chart-panel-coverage-16-october-2026","title":"Spotify chart-panel coverage and African presence, 16 October 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's own spotify-african-share-by-market and african-presence-over-time builds for 16 October 2026","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Counts taken directly from this desk's 16 October 2026 panel build. Markets on the panel is the row count of the registered spotify-african-share-by-market dataset for the date. Markets carrying at least one African-origin artist is the count of rows in that dataset with african_streams greater than zero, which matches markets_charting for 2026-10-16 in african-presence-over-time. Markets outside Africa carrying an African-origin artist is that count minus the four African charts. Markets with zero African-origin presence is the panel count minus the carrying count. African-origin artists on the panel is african_artists for the date in african-presence-over-time. Artists with any export streams is the row count of african-export-column-composition-16-october-2026; artists with none is the difference. No figure here is estimated or rounded.","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":"2026-10-16 07:50:13","n":8,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"measure","label":"Measure","type":"text"},{"key":"count","label":"Count, 16 Oct 2026","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"measure":"Country charts on this desk's Spotify panel","count":74},{"measure":"African countries Spotify publishes a daily chart for","count":4},{"measure":"Markets carrying at least one African-origin artist","count":7},{"measure":"Markets outside Africa carrying an African-origin artist","count":3},{"measure":"Markets on the panel with zero African-origin presence","count":67},{"measure":"African-origin artists on the panel","count":111},{"measure":"African-origin artists with any export streams","count":8},{"measure":"African-origin artists with no export streams","count":103}]}