Country chart report
South Africa music chart report
This country report reads the latest South Africa chart snapshot from Chart Atlas and compares the current Top 10 with the previous stored week. It is useful for spotting local breakouts, returning hits, and songs that are stronger in this market than globally.
South Africa Top 10
| Rank | Song | Artist | Movement | Streams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Remember | Tman Xpress | unchanged | 136,679 streams |
| #2 | Ama hem hem | Thatohatsi | up 1 | 125,631 streams |
| #3 | Distance | Zulu Queens | up 6 | 121,438 streams |
| #4 | Sengithole Omunye | Feza | down 2 | 115,561 streams |
| #5 | Everybody Wanna Be In Love | Calvin Fallo | down 1 | 95,514 streams |
| #6 | Owabulala uBaba | SIHAYO | down 1 | 95,144 streams |
| #7 | H’s On The Table | Royal MusiQ | up 1 | 89,919 streams |
| #8 | Baba Yilwa | DJ Zinhle | down 1 | 88,479 streams |
| #9 | Luqale sakudlala | G-Jealous | up 3 | 81,209 streams |
| #10 | AMABULAWO | Inkos'yamagcokama | down 4 | 80,063 streams |
Local signal versus the global table
The clearest local signals this week: Remember by Tman Xpress (local #1, on 1 of 35 tracked charts); Ama hem hem by Thatohatsi (local #2, on 1 of 35 tracked charts); Distance by Zulu Queens (local #3, on 1 of 35 tracked charts). Songs like these hold Top 10 positions in South Africa while staying nearly invisible in the cross-country aggregate — usually a sign of language-market momentum or a domestic release cycle rather than a global push.
Working in the other direction, 15 of the current global aggregate Top 15 songs do not chart in South Africa at all this week, including Self Aware by Temper City, Beauty And A Beat by Justin Bieber, Dai Dai by Shakira. When a cross-market hit skips a market entirely, the gap usually maps to language, genre preference, or a local release calendar.
49 of the 50 songs on the full South Africa chart appear nowhere else in the tracked set this week. The highest-ranked market exclusives: Remember by Tman Xpress at local #1; Ama hem hem by Thatohatsi at local #2; Distance by Zulu Queens at local #3.
Stability and turnover
Remember by Tman Xpress has now led the South Africa chart for 2 consecutive stored weeks. The longest-running current Top 10 song is Everybody Wanna Be In Love by Calvin Fallo, present in the local Top 10 for 11 of the last 11 stored weeks.
10% of the full local chart is new versus the previous stored week, in line with the 15% average across the tracked set — typical turnover for this comparison window.
How to read this market
South Africa belongs to the Africa region in Chart Atlas. A song that rises here but remains flat globally can indicate a local event, language-market momentum, or a regional genre signal. A song that is simultaneously strong here and in several other countries is more likely to be part of a cross-market trend.
The movement labels compare stored weekly snapshots. They are not a claim about every daily chart change between the two capture dates.