The latest report from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that women and people of color still struggle to climb the executive ladder.
The percentage of women artists on the Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts reached 35% in 2023, a 12-year high, according to a USC Annenberg study.
This year's event featured panels including "Men of Color in the C-Suite" with Epic Records president Zeke Lewis, Billboard president Mike Van and more.
Since 2019, people of color have gone from comprising 24% of the Academy's total membership to 38%. Women now make up 30% of the total.
I started an all-inclusive, diversity-forward songwriting camp to fill a need. Now, the rest of the music business needs to step up.
Of the 2023 class, 40% identify as women, 34% belong to underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and 52% are from outside the U.S.
Diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are already backsliding, but we can't let them go.
Black music executives say that, despite promises of greater diversity and inclusion, not enough advances have been made since Blackout Tuesday.
The not-for-profit organization seeks to advance gender equality in the music industry.
The latest "Music Industry Action Report Card" expresses concern that "things [might] revert to how they were before."
