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Pulse Sources

Every ranking names its sources. These are the feeds Pulse is authorised to use today, the partnerships being pursued, and the sources that are never acceptable as ranking evidence.

Active sources (Tier A)

  • Apple Music Top Songs (South Africa) — Apple's public Marketing Tools RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Apple Music.
    Feed: Apple Marketing Tools RSS feed (rss.marketingtools.apple.com) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Apple Music Top Songs chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's Marketing Tools RSS feed. Source
  • Apple Podcasts Top Shows (South Africa) — Apple's public Marketing Tools RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Apple Podcasts.
    Feed: Apple Marketing Tools RSS feed (rss.marketingtools.apple.com) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Apple Podcasts Top Shows chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's Marketing Tools RSS feed. Apple's charts reflect current listening, follows and completion behaviour — momentum, not all-time audience size. Source
  • Netflix Weekly Top 10 (South Africa) — Netflix's published weekly Top 10 dataset; reproduced with owner named and week shown.
    Feed: Netflix Tudum Top 10 published dataset (all-weeks-countries.tsv) · Public TSV dataset — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Netflix Weekly Top 10 (South Africa), from Netflix's published Top 10 dataset. Source
  • Apple Music Top Albums (South Africa) — Apple's public Marketing Tools RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Apple Music.
    Feed: Apple Marketing Tools RSS feed (rss.marketingtools.apple.com) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Apple Music Top Albums chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's Marketing Tools RSS feed. Source
  • Deezer Charts — Top South Africa — Deezer's public API; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Deezer.
    Feed: Deezer public API — official Deezer Charts 'Top South Africa' playlist (1362528775) · Public JSON API — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Deezer Charts — Top South Africa (Deezer's official chart playlist), via Deezer's public API. Source
  • iTunes Store Top Movies (South Africa) — Apple's public iTunes RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to the iTunes Store.
    Feed: iTunes Store RSS feed (itunes.apple.com/za/rss/topmovies) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: iTunes Store Top Movies chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's public RSS feed. Source
  • iTunes Store Top Songs (South Africa) — Apple's public iTunes RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to the iTunes Store.
    Feed: iTunes Store RSS feed (itunes.apple.com/za/rss/topsongs) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: iTunes Store Top Songs chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's public RSS feed. Purchases, not streaming. Source
  • iTunes Store Top Albums (South Africa) — Apple's public iTunes RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to the iTunes Store.
    Feed: iTunes Store RSS feed (itunes.apple.com/za/rss/topalbums) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: iTunes Store Top Albums chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's public RSS feed. Purchases, not streaming. Source
  • Shazam Chart (South Africa) — Shazam's published public chart export; reproduced with owner named and linked to Shazam's chart page.
    Feed: Shazam published chart CSV (shazam.com/services/charts/csv/top-50/south-africa) · Public CSV export — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Shazam chart for South Africa, from Shazam's published chart export — discovery behaviour over the past 7 days. Source
  • Apple Music Top Music Videos (South Africa) — Apple's public Marketing Tools RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Apple Music.
    Feed: Apple Marketing Tools RSS feed (rss.marketingtools.apple.com) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Apple Music Top Music Videos chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's Marketing Tools RSS feed. Source
  • iTunes Store Top Music Videos (South Africa) — Apple's public iTunes RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to the iTunes Store.
    Feed: iTunes Store RSS feed (itunes.apple.com/za/rss/topmusicvideos) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: iTunes Store Top Music Videos chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's public RSS feed. Purchases, not streaming. Source
  • Apple Podcasts Top Episodes (South Africa) — Apple's public Marketing Tools RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Apple Podcasts.
    Feed: Apple Marketing Tools RSS feed (rss.marketingtools.apple.com) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Apple Podcasts Top Episodes chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's Marketing Tools RSS feed. Source
  • Apple Music Top Playlists (South Africa) — Apple's public Marketing Tools RSS feed; reproduced with owner named and entries linked to Apple Music.
    Feed: Apple Marketing Tools RSS feed (rss.marketingtools.apple.com) · Public JSON feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Apple Music Top Playlists chart for the South African storefront, via Apple's Marketing Tools RSS feed. Source
  • Shazam Top 50 — Johannesburg — Shazam's published public chart export; reproduced with owner named and linked to Shazam's chart page.
    Feed: Shazam published city chart CSV (shazam.com/services/charts/csv) · Public CSV export — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Shazam Top 50 chart for Johannesburg, from Shazam's published chart export. Source
  • Shazam Top 50 — Cape Town — Shazam's published public chart export; reproduced with owner named and linked to Shazam's chart page.
    Feed: Shazam published city chart CSV (shazam.com/services/charts/csv) · Public CSV export — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Shazam Top 50 chart for Cape Town, from Shazam's published chart export. Source
  • Shazam Top 50 — Durban — Shazam's published public chart export; reproduced with owner named and linked to Shazam's chart page.
    Feed: Shazam published city chart CSV (shazam.com/services/charts/csv) · Public CSV export — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: Shazam Top 50 chart for Durban, from Shazam's published chart export. Source
  • Google Trends — Trending Now (South Africa) — Google permits sharing and citing Trends data with source attribution.
    Feed: Google Trends Trending Now RSS export · Public RSS feed — no authentication
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Data source: Google Trends. Source
  • YouTube Music Charts — Top Songs (South Africa) — Publicly published chart reproduced with the owner named and every entry linked back to YouTube.
    Feed: charts.youtube.com weekly Top Songs — public data endpoint (youtubei browse, no credential) · Public web data endpoint — attributed
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: YouTube Music Charts — Top Songs (South Africa), as published at charts.youtube.com. Source
  • YouTube Music Charts — Top Artists (South Africa) — Publicly published chart reproduced with the owner named and every entry linked back to YouTube.
    Feed: charts.youtube.com weekly Top Artists — public data endpoint (youtubei browse, no credential) · Public web data endpoint — attributed
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: YouTube Music Charts — Top Artists (South Africa), as published at charts.youtube.com. Source
  • YouTube Trending — Music (South Africa) — YouTube Data API Services under Google's API terms; reproduced with the owner named and entries linked to YouTube.
    Feed: YouTube Data API v3 videos.list (chart=mostPopular, Music category) · Official public API — key-authenticated
    Healthy — last collected 2 hours ago.
    Source: YouTube Trending (Music) for South Africa, via the YouTube Data API. Source

Coming soon

18 further sources are in onboarding. A coming-soon source contributes nothing to any score and never appears in a public feed count — it activates only when authorised data is really present, and it is named here the moment it goes live.

Never used as ranking evidence

  • Wikipedia
  • Anonymous social accounts
  • Fan-created charts
  • Unverified screenshots
  • Random blogs
  • AI-generated search summaries
  • Purchased engagement
  • Sources with no publication date
  • Data collected through prohibited scraping
  • Press-release claims with no supporting evidence

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