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Spotify’s Chart Panel Measured 2.9094 Per Cent of Burna Boy’s Daily Streams and 49.2183 Per Cent of Seyi Vibez’s. Same 76 Markets, Same 20 Days

African Music’s Spotify Export Share Fell to 0.866 Per Cent, the Lowest of 58 Readings. Three Markets Carried All of It and Nigeria Carried None

YouTube’s Number One Changes Every 2.25 Days in Mali and Every 40.5 Days in Libya, an 18-Fold Gap Across the Only 24 African Markets It Charts

Guinea-Bissau’s iTunes Download Chart Had 2 Number Ones in 70 Days. Across 17 African Markets, 90.94 Per Cent of Download Slots Never Reach Streaming

Apple Music’s African Share Is Twice As High On Songs As On Albums

What Selling a Music Catalogue Means in Money: 15.5 Times a Year’s Net Earnings, Across $537.7 Million of Disclosed Deals

How Much Do Artists Make Per Stream? Spotify’s Filings Put €3.20 a Month Behind Each Subscriber and €0.26 Behind Each Free Listener

SAMPRA Closed 2024 Owing R303,662,657 in Unpaid Royalties, 136.1 Per Cent of That Year’s Entire Licence Revenue

326 of 384 African Records Last Longer on Their Home Apple Music Chart Than Abroad. Adjust for Each Chart’s Own Turnover and It Is Between 139 and 270

213 Artists Chart in 20 or More of Apple Music’s 41 African Markets on Its Music-Video Chart. On Its Songs Chart, 18 Do