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How a Music Industry Pronoun Dataset Unpacks Gender Equity
TEXAS, UNITED STATES, JUL 21 – Women now represent 33% of top artists worldwide, up from 26% in 2020, highlighting ongoing progress and persistent gender disparities in the music industry, Chartmetric reports.
- On 2025-07-23, the analytics firm Chartmetric released the 2025 Make Music Equal report, pronoun data as of May 15, 2025, covering over 1 million artists across 230 countries and territories.
- To avoid assumptions about identity, the report authors said they launched the industry’s only pronoun dataset to analyze gender representation, drawing from over 1 million self-declared artist pronouns.
- Career stage analysis reveals solo artists using she/her pronouns increase from 17% at undiscovered to 28% at superstar levels.
- Despite male dominance, women now constitute 33% of top-performing artists, up from 26% in 2020, signaling progress at the industry’s highest level.
- Beyond the report, pronoun metadata can equip industry stakeholders with tools to monitor where progress is occurring and where it is not, shaping future gender equity efforts.
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