The Recording Industry of South Africa has launched South Africa's first national music charts.
The Official South African Music Charts will rank the most popular songs in the country based on streaming data. RiSA is IFPI's national member organization in the country. The first chart, Weekly TOP 200 Tracks, ranks all tracks streamed in South Africa, including both local and international music. The second, Weekly TOP 100 Local ZA Tracks, only includes songs with at least one credited artist from South Africa. No album-specific charts have been announced.Both charts, which debuted on Thursday , will be aggregated based on streaming data from three platforms popularly used by local audiences: Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.
Subscription streams will be weighted more heavily than ad-funded streams, while no track exclusion policy or accelerated decline methods are currently being applied. Different versions of tracks, including radio edits, additional features, remixes and different language country versions, are aggregated corresponding to their original track.