Report Unpacks Gender Equity in Music One Pronoun at a Time

Chartemetric’s latest Make Music Equal report uses over one million artists’ pronouns to reveal the real state of gender equity in music and the music industry.

Chartmetric’s New Report Unpacks Gender Equity in Music and the Music Industry

by Chartmetric

Today, we released our 2025 Make Music Equal report—an in-depth analysis powered by our ongoing pronoun tracker and dataset. Drawing from over 1 million self-declared artist pronouns as a proxy for gender representation, the report breaks down gains and persistent disparities across the music industry into 10 bite-sized, shareable insights.

Key Findings: 

• Out of 1M+ artists in the Make Music Equal dataset, about 728,000 are solo acts. Among them: 79% use he/him, 18% use she/her, and 3% use they/them or other pronouns
• Among the top 100 artists by Chartmetric Score, 33% now use she/her, up from 26% in 2020
• TV syncs are nearly balanced between men (29%) and women (26%), while film and video games lean more male, with 15% and 6% of releases coming from women, respectively 
• Festival slots for women rose 3% since the pre-pandemic era, partially driven by a decline in band bookings
• Band-released tracks also dropped nearly 8%, making room for solo artists—especially women (+2%) and men (+5%)
• Women are underplayed in genres like country and hip-hop, but dominate in R&B and soul, outperforming men by millions of radio airplay spins
• Female fandom is fueling success, particularly among top-performing artists

Read The Full Make Music Equal gender equity in music report here.

For more information about our ongoing Make Music Equal initiative and publicly accessible pronoun dataset, head to makemusicequal.chartmetric.com.

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