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South Africa’s Spotify Panel Fell 46.1 Per Cent in a Single Day. The Two Artists Who Vanished From It Account for Less Than Half the Loss

161 of 163 Origin Flags on This Desk’s Spotify Panel Have Confirmed the Classifier Right Since 12 September. It Was Wrong Twice

Egypt’s Spotify Chart Was More African Than Nigeria’s for One Day, 75.7 to 75.0 Per Cent. It Did Not Survive to the Next Reading

Three Nigerian Artists Outstream Egypt’s Entire 19-Artist Cohort on Spotify’s African Panel by 1,766,201 Daily Streams

92.9 Per Cent of Spotify’s Charted Stream Volume on 2 October Moved Through a Market With Zero African Lead-Artist Presence

A Fifth Country Entered Spotify’s African Panel One Day After a Six-Reading Run at Four. It Got In the Only Way It Could

Forty of forty-eight African-panel artists lost Spotify streams on 1 October. Not one gain reached 15 per cent.

This Desk’s Lead-Artist Measure Captured Between 7.6 and 10.0 Per Cent of African Music’s Spotify Export Credit, Every One of 20 Days Measured in September

Spotify’s African Chart Footprint Fell to 7 Markets on 30 September, a New Series Low. Both of Its Single-Artist Beachheads Are Now Gone

$210,090.68 of Spotify Chart Gross Outside Africa Carried an African Credit Across 20 Days. This Desk Has Been Pricing $18,338.06 of It