MU 2022 snapshot survey
The MU asked members how safe they felt working as a musician at live music concerts and festivals.
47%
felt somewhat safe
25%
felt very safe
10%
felt unsafe
2%
felt very unsafe
1000 popular songs
When looking across 1,000 Popular Songs from 2012-2021 and seeing how many women were in each category
21.8%
ARTISTS
12.7%
SONGWRITERS
2.8%
PRODUCERS
57% had NO female writers
the
reports
SEAT AT THE TABLE
A report analysing the change in the makeup of board members, chairpersons and CEO positions across 12 UK music industry trade bodies
FINDINGS ON GENDER 2021
FEMALE CEO's across 11 music industry trade bodies
FEMALE CHAIRPERSON'S across 11 music industry trade bodies
FEMALE BOARD MEMBERS across 12 music industry trade bodies
FEMALE PPL BOARD MEMBERS
WHERE IS THE INCLUSION?
The Annenberg Initiative Report 2022 showed that although some positive improvements have been made "there is still much work to be done."
In 2022, women represented only 30% of the 160 artists on the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart, while men made up 69.4% and artists who identified as non-binary made up less than 1%. That 30% representation number is slightly better than the 11-year average, which places women at 22.3% of the total.
The report also found that half of all artists on the year-end Hot 100 chart in 2022 were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. This was a decrease from 2021 when the study found that 57.2% of artists came from those groups. Between 2012 and 2022, 48.1% of all artists across the 1,100-song sample came from those groups.
the
survey
UN WOMEN UK
a survey carried out by UN Women UK, to investigate sexual harassment in public places
67%
% OF workers who have experienced sexual harassment in the music sector
7/10
have been sexually harassed in the UK
of women aged under 40 have been sexually assaulted at a live music event
of women of all ages in the UK have experienced some form of sexual harassment in a public space
this number rises among 18-24-year-olds
why didn't women report?
“I didn’t think the incident was serious enough to report”
“I didn’t think reporting it would help”
THE GRAMMYS
2013 -2022
1.9%
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
THERE WERE NO WOMEN NOMINATED FOR PRODUCER OF THE YEAR 2021 or 2022
RECORD OF THE YEAR
10.4%
FEMALE
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
9.7%
FEMALE
SONG OF THE YEAR
28.8%
FEMALE