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Six Services Publish a Daily Song Chart for 42 African Markets. Spotify Publishes for 4, and Removing It Changes the Count by 0.0 Per Cent

COSOMA’s Own Malawi Levy Breakdown Sums to K 2,400,000,000, Not the K 3,000,000,000 It Says It Collected. A Disputed Second Cut Leaves Rights Holders K 1,440,000,000, or 48.0 Per Cent

African Music’s Spotify Export Column Grossed $407.65 on 2 November 2026, Entirely From Egypt. Nigeria’s Home Chart Alone Grossed 81.6 Times That

Four Countries Have Held at Least 94 Per Cent of Spotify’s 50-Artist African Panel on Every One of 17 Readings Since 28 August. Only One Outside Country Has Ever Returned

248 of 251 Origin Flags on This Desk’s Spotify Panel Have Confirmed the Classifier Right Since 12 September, Down From 99.2 to 98.8 Per Cent. A 19-Reading Clean Streak Just Broke

South Africa’s Own Spotify Chart Broke a Five-Reading Rising Streak on 29 October. Its African Share Fell to 17.90 Per Cent, and Without One Artist’s Gain the Underlying Drop Would Have Been 194.83 Per Cent Bigger

Egypt’s Spotify Top 200 Showed 235 Recordings in 70 Days. South Africa’s Showed 609 From the Same 200 Slots

Nigeria’s Home Chart Grossed $31,259.57 on 25 October, 46.8 Times the Entire Spotify Export Column. One Artist Holds a Third of That Column

Spotify’s Four African Charts Cover 52.03 Per Cent of 25 Tracked African Markets by Internet Users and 39.94 Per Cent by Population. The Largest Market With No Chart Is Algeria, 36,724,419 Online

South Africa’s Five Panel Artists Earn 50,159 Spotify Streams Per Recording. Egypt’s Eighteen Earn 41,520, and One Artist Is the Entire Gap