As a consumer, your purchasing power has a direct bottom-up impact on the music industry. From festival attendance to streaming, merchandise and beyond – you have the power to steer change…
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To get some context, it is important to have comparative figures between genders to reflect on the disparity in facing barriers and outright prejudice because of one’s gender in…
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The effects of conscious activism have to be noticed and noted. Whether it is holding organisations and individuals accountable, pushing for structural change, being conscious of our own…
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Reports such as the TuneCore commissioned MIDiA report ‘BE THE CHANGE: Women Making Music’ are crucial in underpinning where the issues lie, what proactive measures can be taken…
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When considering the positive aspects of how to move on and up in one’s career, mentoring becomes a crucial way of facilitating this – tapping into industry expertise with a 121 focus to really…
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It is no secret that women and gender minorities are and feel held back in the music industry, and we know that intersectional elements further exacerbate this. The report “Women in the…
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To mark Women's Equality Day, Chartmetric made their artist pronoun and gender database free for commercial and academic use! Their vision is for an accessible music industry that values…
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Where awards and prizes are concerned, unsurprisingly, the culture and arts sector lags far behind in gender equality. In the report ‘State of the Arts Report about the situation of women artists and…
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The 2019 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll found that 50% of top 10 new releases were recordings led or co-led by women artists. Whether driven by #MeToo or other pressing global concerns, it…
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Today we consider the world of jazz and critical recognition– in particular around the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll, which took the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 into consideration in NPR’s feature…
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