Friday Figures - 1 Apr

The average number of women songwriters has remained pretty stagnant, depressingly, with little variation from 2012 to 2021 (a decade!) according to the updated USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative report “Inclusion in the Recording Studio?”. This is the fifth annual report in the series, which examines the artists, songwriters, and producers credited on each of the 1,000 popular songs on the Billboard Hot 100. There are countless other stark disparities in the report which highlights the urgency of continued work required in the music industry for gender representation, which you can access here.