NGMCharts
Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  

Methodology

A weekly chart for Nigerian gospel music with global signal scope, built around recent momentum and verified song identity.

NGMCharts is a weekly chart for Nigerian gospel music. We track how songs move across trusted digital platforms, then rank them around recent momentum, verified song identity, and chart integrity. We do not simply rank the biggest lifetime songs — we reflect which songs are genuinely moving now.

The chart draws from YouTube, Audiomack, and publicly visible Spotify data as performance sources, while Apple Music plays an important role in identity and metadata verification. Apple Music does not add plays to the score — it gives NGMCharts a stronger song anchor: official title, release date, artwork, preview, ISRC, and duration.

Spotify data is treated as a public play-count signal where available. NGMCharts does not claim access to private royalty reports, label dashboards, or Spotify for Artists data. Missing Spotify data does not automatically disqualify a song.

Once eligible, a song is scored primarily through current movement — recent velocity across today, 3-day, and 7-day windows. A smaller catalogue layer stays in the model so the chart still recognises scale, but movement leads the final outcome.

How platforms are used

YouTube
Score source
Public video performance, movement, official video context, family links, and source checks.
Audiomack
Score source
Public play performance where a reliable song match is available.
Spotify
Score source
Publicly visible play-count movement where available, with family and duplicate controls.
Apple Music
Identity source
Artist catalogues, metadata, release date, artwork, ISRC, duration, and song verification support.
Manual review
Governance
Used for duplicates, wrong genres, live versions, remixes, weak matches, and suspicious data.

Scoring rules

Weighted plays
YouTube views × 1.0, Audiomack plays × 0.5, Spotify streams × 0.8. Apple Music is not a scoring source.
Entry threshold
A song needs at least 100,000 weighted plays before it can enter the scoring pool.
Data maturity
A song needs at least 2 valid metric entries before it can rank.
Movement signal
Current movement blends 65% today velocity, 25% 3-day, and 10% 7-day.
Final score
95% adjusted movement and 5% catalogue relevance, then a survival guard is applied.
Artist cap
The main chart allows a maximum of 3 songs per artist.

Recency factor

0–7 days
1.6
8–30 days
1.45
31–90 days
1.2
91–180 days
0.9
181–365 days
0.6
366–730 days
0.35
730+ days
0.2

What does not count

  • •Private dashboards, royalty reports, label or distributor data, or Spotify for Artists data.
  • •Unverified duplicate uploads or unrelated songs with similar titles.
  • •Sermons, medleys, or catalogue matches that do not clearly belong to the verified song family.
  • •Platform IDs that fail identity checks or remain unresolved after review.
  • •Artificial spikes, invalid corrections, or source data treated as unreliable.
  • •Radio, TV, TikTok, Instagram, and Boomplay until NGMCharts has reliable source access and published rules.
Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  Nigerian Gospel Music Charts  •  The official weekly gospel ranking  •  Updated every Friday  •  

Methodology

A weekly chart for Nigerian gospel music with global signal scope, built around recent momentum and verified song identity.

NGMCharts is a weekly chart for Nigerian gospel music. We track how songs move across trusted digital platforms, then rank them around recent momentum, verified song identity, and chart integrity. We do not simply rank the biggest lifetime songs — we reflect which songs are genuinely moving now.

The chart draws from YouTube, Audiomack, and publicly visible Spotify data as performance sources, while Apple Music plays an important role in identity and metadata verification. Apple Music does not add plays to the score — it gives NGMCharts a stronger song anchor: official title, release date, artwork, preview, ISRC, and duration.

Spotify data is treated as a public play-count signal where available. NGMCharts does not claim access to private royalty reports, label dashboards, or Spotify for Artists data. Missing Spotify data does not automatically disqualify a song.

Once eligible, a song is scored primarily through current movement — recent velocity across today, 3-day, and 7-day windows. A smaller catalogue layer stays in the model so the chart still recognises scale, but movement leads the final outcome.

How platforms are used

YouTubeScore source
Public video performance, movement, official video context, family links, and source checks.
AudiomackScore source
Public play performance where a reliable song match is available.
SpotifyScore source
Publicly visible play-count movement where available, with family and duplicate controls.
Apple MusicIdentity source
Artist catalogues, metadata, release date, artwork, ISRC, duration, and song verification support.
Manual reviewGovernance
Used for duplicates, wrong genres, live versions, remixes, weak matches, and suspicious data.

Scoring rules

Weighted plays
YouTube views × 1.0, Audiomack plays × 0.5, Spotify streams × 0.8. Apple Music is not a scoring source.
Entry threshold
A song needs at least 100,000 weighted plays before it can enter the scoring pool.
Data maturity
A song needs at least 2 valid metric entries before it can rank.
Movement signal
Current movement blends 65% today velocity, 25% 3-day, and 10% 7-day.
Final score
95% adjusted movement and 5% catalogue relevance, then a survival guard is applied.
Artist cap
The main chart allows a maximum of 3 songs per artist.

Recency factor

0–7 days
1.6
8–30 days
1.45
31–90 days
1.2
91–180 days
0.9
181–365 days
0.6
366–730 days
0.35
730+ days
0.2

What does not count

  • •Private dashboards, royalty reports, label or distributor data, or Spotify for Artists data.
  • •Unverified duplicate uploads or unrelated songs with similar titles.
  • •Sermons, medleys, or catalogue matches that do not clearly belong to the verified song family.
  • •Platform IDs that fail identity checks or remain unresolved after review.
  • •Artificial spikes, invalid corrections, or source data treated as unreliable.
  • •Radio, TV, TikTok, Instagram, and Boomplay until NGMCharts has reliable source access and published rules.
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