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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

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

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

No Platform’s Measured Per-Stream Rate Rose Between 2021 and 2024

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

SAMRO’s Cost-to-Income Ratio Fell 7.5 Points in a Decade. It Took Six Years Just to Get Back to Where It Started

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

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

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

African Music’s Entire Spotify Chart Day Outside Africa Was Worth $996.67 Gross. Three Artists Held $640.30 of It