Friday Figures - 13 May

Given all the work and activism around gender parity in the music industry, we need only to take a look at recently as last year to see the trajectory for the inclusion (or lack thereof!) of women in the studio. Not only are the overall stats insultingly dire, not a single woman of colour was credited as producer on a new release for 2021! The latest ‘Inclusion in the Recording Studio?’ found that of all new releases in 2021 on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart, there were no women of colour credited as producers. Let that sink in.

Read the report here, get angry and let’s collectively keep pushing for representation and visibility in all areas of the music industry.