Women are still struggling to make their way into major music charts like the Billboard Hot 100, according to a new study by the American think tank Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. The figures say it all: less than a quarter of the artists listed in the last eight years are women.
Researchers at the University of Southern California decided to look deeper into this absence of women in the music industry. Their recent study, conducted by the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, reveals that only 21.6% of artists appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 between 2012 and 2020 are women.
They represented only 20.2% of artists on this chart last year, a figure that is down from 2019. Data from…
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