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Girls Who Listen is a female-founded non-profit dedicated to supporting and shaping the next generation of female creatives and executives in the music and entertainment industries through mentorship, education, and community.
Girls Who Listen is a global network built to support and empower the next generation of women in music and entertainment. We champion mentorship, education, and meaningful industry access — building a future where women can lead, connect and thrive.
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The music industry values women and their contributions, but they are still largely missing from popular music. The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative reports that across 800 popular songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart between 2012 and 2019.
- Females
- Males
The ratio of men to women producers across 900 popular songs was 30:1.
19 out of 1,972 producing credits went to women of color.
Songwriters: 441 songwriters credited in 2023. Of those, 80.3% (n=355) were men and 19.5% (n=86) were women. There was one gender non-binary songwriter in 2023 (0.2%).
The report also notes that 56% of songs in 2023 included at least one woman songwriter—an increase from 2022 and the highest percentage in 12 years.
Of those 441 credits, 80.3% were men and 19.5% were women. There was one gender non-binary songwriter in 2023 (0.2%).
In comparison to 2022 (30.2%), the percentage of women artists has increased in 2023 (35%), though this is just shy (0.2 percentage points) of significance.
Looking to genre, across 12 years, women were most likely to write Pop (20.1%) and Dance/Electronic (19.6%) songs, and least likely to write Hip-Hop/Rap (7.5%) and Country (9.9%) songs.
Grammys: 2024 saw a significant increase in the percentage of women nominees, from 15.5% in 2023 to 24% in 2024. This was also significantly higher than 2013 (7.9%), but remains below the highest percentage of women nominees, which was reached in 2021 (28.1%).
Billboard Hot 100 Year Charts
In 2023, 61% of the artists on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts were from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group while 39% were white. Nearly two-thirds of women artists (65%) with a song on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Chart were women of color. Nearly one-quarter (24%) of nominations across these 6 categories went to women in 2024—a significant increase from 2023 (15.5%)
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