THE RECORD
South Africa is the shallowest of the three fields led this week: 42 scored artists, 159 tracked events across 28 days. Shimza tops it at 88.2, well clear of Le Good Life at 83.1. He holds 1,321,516 Instagram followers and 83,300 YouTube subscribers — roughly sixteen to one. That is the inverse of the shape we see on most charts, where the video platform carries the bigger number.
FILED BY THE ROOM
His most-watched uploads are titled by location rather than by track: a set at Yona Beach with 654,963 views, another from Tignes Unlimited with 234,289. The third, at 100,360, is the first one on the list that is a piece of music rather than a place.
That ordering is the story. For a touring DJ the catalogue is a schedule, and the archive is a list of rooms. Our own registry agrees with the shape: we hold him at in Ibiza twice inside three weeks, in May and again for a closing in June, and at Be Beach on New Year's Eve before that. One room, twice, in a season — that is a residency's footprint, whatever it is contracted as.
EMBEDDED FROM THE ARTIST'S OWN CHANNEL · NOT HOSTED BY US · IF THIS FRAME IS EMPTY THE ORIGINAL POST WAS REMOVED: Shimza live from Tignes Unlimited 2026, on the artist's official YouTube channel.
SCENE
For a touring DJ the catalogue is a schedule, and the archive is a list of rooms.
WHAT WE ARE NOT TELLING YOU
There is a fourth row in our file: Be Beach again, dated 31 December 2026. Our matcher rates it low confidence and it is a date that has not happened, so it is not in the strip above and it is not part of this reading. We mention it because leaving it silently out of a piece about a diary would be its own kind of edit.
We have not spoken to him. We do not know what any of these bookings were worth, whether the dates were a contracted residency, or how the sets sounded. Our South African pool is 42 artists, which is small enough that this chart should be read as our coverage rather than the country.
UNVERIFIED
Leaving it silently out of a piece about a diary would be its own kind of edit.
Shimza88.2
Le Good Life83.1
Benzoo77.1
Thukuthela76.7TOP 4 OF 42 SCORED · RISING THRESHOLD 85
HOW THIS PIECE WAS SELECTED, AND ON WHAT NUMBERS
WHY IT PUBLISHED
A trigger fired — peak score — and the subject carried enough verifiable record to write from. Charts publish weekly regardless; written pieces do not. The thresholds
THE FIGURES IN THIS PIECE
| FIELD | VALUE | WINDOW | SOURCE |
|---|---|---|---|
| MiSFY Score | 88.2 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-08-25 | GF Rising — South Africa, 2026-W35 |
| Above threshold | +3.2 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-08-25 | PEAK_SCORE = 85.0 |
| Rank | #1 / 10 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-08-25 | GF Rising — South Africa, 2026-W35 |
| Scored pool | 42 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-08-25 | MiSFY registry — South Africa artists |
| Tracked events · 28d | 159 | 2026-07-29 → 2026-08-25 | Tracked venue events — South Africa |
| Genre | DJ / Electronic | — | Evidence-based assignment |
SOURCE LEDGER
- 83,300 subscribers; top uploads 654,963 (Yona Beach), 234,289 (Tignes Unlimited), 100,360 (Sunset in Pretoria)YouTube Data API, artist's official channel
- Pacha, Ibiza — 28 May and 18 June 2026; Be Beach — 31 December 2025 (all high confidence)MiSFY appearance registry
- A fourth row dated 31 December 2026 is low confidence and excludedMiSFY appearance registry
- 1,321,516 Instagram followers — this week's snapshotMiSFY registry
- Chart position, score, pool and national event countMiSFY registry — GF Rising, this week
WHAT THIS PIECE DOES NOT CLAIM
This piece claims nothing about how the sets sounded, nothing about his biography, and nothing about the commercial terms of any booking. No interview was conducted, requested or granted.
HOW TO CITE THIS
Ground Frequency Data Desk — Africa. "Shimza leads South Africa at 88.2." GF Rising, 2026-W35. https://www.groundfreq.com/charts/rising/south-africa/2026-W35/
@shimza.dj · PROFILE IMAGE, MIRROREDTwo of the continent's loudest exporters. Venue coverage lags artist coverage here — a gap we report rather than paper over. This is an organisational byline, not a person pretending to be local — drafted from a locked extract, fact-checked against it, and signed off by a named human editor. The Africa desk · Corrections
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United Kingdom · artists
MiSFY Score 90 at #1 in United Kingdom — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 147
RECORD W8/9 · 228,850 followers · 1/3 extra platforms · 8 documented dates · genre yt_curation
SlayyyterIN THE QUEUE
United States · artists
MiSFY Score 90.5 at #1 in United States — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 349
RECORD W7/9 · 726,732 followers · 3/3 extra platforms · 1 documented dates · genre yt_curation
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Brazil · artists
MiSFY Score 88 at #1 in Brazil — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 60
RECORD W7/9 · 11,351,304 followers · 3/3 extra platforms · 2 documented dates · genre yt_curation
MPHIN THE QUEUE
United Kingdom · artists
MiSFY Score 88.5 at #3 in United Kingdom — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 180
RECORD W7/9 · 119,278 followers · 1/3 extra platforms · 3 documented dates · genre yt_curation
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Mexico · artists
MiSFY Score 87.3 at #2 in Mexico — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 29
RECORD W7/9 · 55,017 followers · 1/3 extra platforms · 7 documented dates · genre yt_curation
Palomazo NorteñoIN THE QUEUE
Mexico · artists
MiSFY Score 87.1 at #3 in Mexico — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 29
RECORD W6/9 · 284,949 followers · 1/3 extra platforms · 2 documented dates · genre yt_curation
PachaIN THE QUEUE
Spain · artists
4 scored artists documented on stage across 7 appearances, 2026-05-05 to 2026-08-18; appearance-weighted MiSFY Score 81.8, +3.4 clear of Amnesia — 6 rooms in Spain carry enough ledger to rank
RECORD W7/9 · 4 scored artists · 2 rising · 7 appearances · 2026-05-05~2026-08-18
Rosendo CantúIN THE QUEUE
Mexico · artists
MiSFY Score 88.8 at #1 in Mexico — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 29
RECORD W4/9 · 35,469 followers · 1/3 extra platforms · 0 documented dates · genre yt_curation
f5veIN THE QUEUE
Japan · artists
MiSFY Score 88.2 at #3 in Japan — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 45
RECORD W6/9 · 526,854 followers · 2/3 extra platforms · 0 documented dates · genre yt_curation
Current JoysIN THE QUEUE
United States · artists
MiSFY Score 88.9 at #3 in United States — at or above the 85 rising threshold, pool 434
RECORD W4/9 · 192,464 followers · 0/3 extra platforms · 0 documented dates · genre yt_curation