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Nneka Obi

Nneka Obi covers measurement for Afrobeats Wire: what the charts, panels and registries actually record about African music, and what they leave out. She builds the datasets her pieces run on, and every figure she publishes is downloadable.

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Cairokee, TUL8TE and Amr Diab Drove Three-Quarters of the Fall in Egypt’s Confirmed-African Spotify Streams, Measured Two Ways

September 21, 2026

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Eight Artists Have Held Spotify’s African Export Column on Every One of 20 Measured Days. Not One Is Nigerian, Ghanaian or South African

September 19, 2026

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African Artists Charted on 9 of Spotify’s 75 Country Charts on 19 September, Down From 12 in August. Four Charts Were Lost and Three Artists Explain All Four

September 19, 2026

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Unresolved Origins on This Desk’s Spotify Roster Grew From 1.2 to 35.5 Per Cent in Ten Days. Today’s Fix Recovers 47,188,882 Streams, Not the Gap

September 15, 2026

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South Africa’s Spotify Chart Got More African on Every One of Three Measured Mondays. Nigeria and Egypt’s Got Less African on All Three

September 14, 2026

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Egypt’s Spotify Chart Looks 12.21 Points Less African in a Month. The Fall Is Entirely in Artists This Desk’s Registry Cannot Place

September 13, 2026

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Morocco’s Chart Carried 11 African Artists From Elsewhere on 4 September. Six Were Algerian Acts With No Home Chart to Have Crossed From

September 10, 2026

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88 of the 101 African Artists on Spotify’s Daily Charts Appear on Exactly One Chart. In 14 Collection Dates That Share Has Never Fallen Below 86.5 Per Cent

September 5, 2026

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Nigeria’s Share of Spotify’s African Panel Hit 71.59 Per Cent. Egypt’s Fall Did Four-Fifths of the Work

September 4, 2026

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Spotify’s African Export Column Fell to 332,224 Streams on 4 September, Down a Third in Five Days. Its Two-Time Top Earner Vanished

September 4, 2026

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