Missing! Women in the music industry

While the success of stars like Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, and Taylor Swift might lead the casual observer to assume women in the music industry are doing just fine, the reality is that women are at a dramatic disadvantage when compared to their male counterparts.

In this recent post on MusicThinkTank, contributor Jonathon Blake explores the issue of women’s under-representation in the music industry.

“This week, the University of Southern California published their most recent report “Inclusion in the recording studio?”. This report examined the gender of creators spanning the last 9 years from 2012 to 2020. It assessed the creators behind the top 100 songs of each year, studying a total of 900 songs. The report found that between the years of 2012 and 2020 only 21.6% of the artists in the US singles charts were women. This is a comparison of 3.6 men to every 1 woman in the chart.”