Data Nneka Obi 38 of 46 Matched African Artists Lost Spotify Chart Streams on 22 September. Every South African Artist Did, and a Third of the Loss Is One Release Cooling Off September 22, 2026
Data Thandiwe Mokoena One Nigerian Artist’s Spotify Chart Day Priced at $24,629.35. Everything African Music Earned on Spotify’s 71 Non-African Charts That Day Came to $1,082.16 September 21, 2026
Data Nneka Obi Cairokee, TUL8TE and Amr Diab Drove Three-Quarters of the Fall in Egypt’s Confirmed-African Spotify Streams, Measured Two Ways September 21, 2026
Data Nneka Obi Nine Artists Now Hold Every Date of Spotify’s African Export Column, Not Eight September 20, 2026
Data Nneka Obi 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
Data Nneka Obi 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
Data Thandiwe Mokoena SAMRO Owed 3.07 Times What It Paid Out in FY2025, Up From 2.68 a Year Earlier. SAMPRA’s Same Ratio Held Flat at 1.72 September 19, 2026
Data Thandiwe Mokoena No Platform’s Measured Per-Stream Rate Rose Between 2021 and 2024 September 17, 2026
Data Nneka Obi 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
