The yr is 2023: Singers are turning their voices into playable devices, bands are performing as holograms, fully digital artists are hitting the market, and one can spin up a completed track with 20 minutes and an iPhone. Headlines (together with a few of our personal) proudly proclaim that right now, everybody is a creator, with boundless alternatives for creativity at their fingertips, often without spending a dime. But even because the technological, monetary, and logistical limitations to entry for music-making proceed to break down, the discriminatory limitations that maintain ladies – and lots of others – again, stubbornly stay. 

Why? And the way can we transfer previous them?

These questions impressed MIDiA, TuneCore, and Imagine’s first research on ladies and different gender-expansive identities in music again in 2021, and proceed to drive our analysis as we proudly strategy the fourth annual version of BE THE CHANGE: Gender Fairness in Music. Our ongoing purpose with this research is to not solely pinpoint the numbers behind gender inequality within the music business, however to additionally perceive why these points persist, and advocate calls-to-action to make the music business a greater place for everybody.

In previous years, now we have gone deep on the enduring sexualisation of ladies within the business, strains on their confidence and psychological well being, and the “notion hole” the place mens’ incomplete understanding of those points holds again progress, amongst different specifics. We additionally take care to grasp the nuance of experiences throughout style, position, gender identification, and world area, in addition to how these experiences intersect with race, class, sexual orientation, and different components. This yr’s survey revisits many of those points in addition to different, less-studied ones, akin to what drives ladies and gender-expansive identities to really feel that they have to abandon the music business, and their experiences with reporting (or selecting to not report) wrongdoing.

The easiest way to help our effort now’s to take and share the survey, which is formally open HERE to music creators, professionals and executives of all gender identities, globally. The survey is translated into 14 languages alongside English: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Thai, Bahasa Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese language, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and Hindi.

The outcomes might be revealed in our research on Worldwide Ladies’s Day, 8 March 2024. This analysis follows the 2023 research in partnership with Luminate, and the 2022 and 2021 editions in partnership with MIDiA Analysis.

Be a part of us in our struggle for higher situations within the music business — take the survey right here.

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