{"id":9375,"slug":"youtube-no1-turnover-summary","title":"Pooled Turnover Summary, YouTube&#8217;s Daily Video Chart Number One, 24 African Markets, 16 August to 7 November 2026","source":"Computed from this desk's youtube-number-one-turnover-by-market dataset","source_url":"","source_type":"computed","method":"Four summary rows computed directly from the 24-market dataset youtube-number-one-turnover-by-market: the pooled figure divides the sum of every market's observed chart-days by the sum of every market's reigns (a reign-weighted average, so markets with more reign-days in the window count more); the simple mean instead averages each market's own average with equal weight regardless of how many days that market was observed; the fastest and slowest rows name the single market at each extreme of avg_reign_days. ratio_vs_fastest_market divides each row's avg_reign_days by the fastest market's (Mali's), so Mali's own row is exactly 1.0.","unit":"days","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":"2026-11-07 07:46:35","n":4,"first_party":0,"columns":[{"key":"metric","label":"Metric","type":"text"},{"key":"avg_reign_days","label":"Average reign length, days","type":"number"},{"key":"total_days","label":"Chart-days in window","type":"number"},{"key":"total_reigns","label":"Reigns counted","type":"number"},{"key":"ratio_vs_fastest_market","label":"Ratio to Mali's average","type":"number"}],"rows":[{"metric":"Pooled across 24 markets (total chart-days \/ total reigns)","avg_reign_days":5.95,"total_days":1952,"total_reigns":328,"ratio_vs_fastest_market":2.64},{"metric":"Simple mean of the 24 markets own averages","avg_reign_days":8.7283,"total_days":1952,"total_reigns":328,"ratio_vs_fastest_market":3.88},{"metric":"Fastest market: ML","avg_reign_days":2.25,"total_days":81,"total_reigns":36,"ratio_vs_fastest_market":1},{"metric":"Slowest market: LY","avg_reign_days":40.5,"total_days":81,"total_reigns":2,"ratio_vs_fastest_market":18}]}