Gender breakdowns in job roles are still striking (and as we have seen recently with gender pay gaps in the music industry in the UK, it doesn’t stop there). It’s worth also observing statistics…
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In the last figure today, we take a quick look at numbers around artist rosters and representation. In their recent report, ROSTR found that across the top 1000 management companies analysed…
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In today's Friday Figures we take a brief look at the live music sector. Live DMA is a network of music venues associations across Europe and represents 2597 live music venues and clubs…
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Following on from the previous number, the report also highlighted that a “total of 3,330 songwriters were credited on the seven-year sample. A full 87.7% were males and 12.3% were females…
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It goes without saying that popular music consumption around the globe is largely influenced by the US. We take a look at some stats n the Inclusion in the Recording Studio report from the USC Annenberg…
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When considering a different genre, say electronic music in a live music context, the gender disparity continues to be pronounced. Given Keychange’s manifesto and pledge perspective, this is central…
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It raises many questions when gender balance, or lack thereof, runs heavily throughout differing genres, from the classical to the contemporary. Here is a number to delve into and reflect…
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The report, “Inclusion in the Recording Studio?” is the third annual report on the music industry from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Funded by Spotify,…
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“A total of 899 individuals were nominated for a Grammy Award between 2013 and 2018. 90.7% of those were male and and 9.3% were female.” A self-explanatory figure just goes to show that…
Sometimes we need to look at the most obvious numbers to really think about the gender disparity and representation in all facets of life when the global population gender split is basically even…
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