The report begins by wanting on the high 10 most-streamed tracks of 2022 throughout 5 main DSPs: Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube, and TikTok. Of the 36 distinctive songs in these entries, there have been 240 credited producers and engineers, solely 16 of which have been girls and nonbinary folks. The research discovered that amongst those self same high 10 songs from DSPs final yr, girls and nonbinary people have been extra extremely concentrated inside assistant roles than in key technical roles, which may point out “a rising pipeline of those contributors rising into key ranges,” based on the research’s authors, however may additionally “be indicative of a glass ceiling stopping this demographic from an upward trajectory.”
For the biggest part of information, Misplaced within the Combine compiled the highest 50 songs from 14 genre-specific lists: pop, Latin, rap, hip-hop, dance, R&B, nation, rock and different, steel, people and Americana, digital, Christian and gospel, classical, and jazz. The bottom percentages of ladies and nonbinary folks credited in key technical roles have been present in steel (0.0%), rap (0.7%), and Christian and gospel at (0.8%).
In the meantime the digital style clocked in with 17.6% of its producer roles held by girls and nonbinary folks. People and Americana was additionally excessive, with girls and nonbinary producers representing 16.4% of its high 50 songs in 2022 in addition to the second-highest proportion for engineering roles at 6.4%, following R&B (7.2%).
Graphic courtesy of Repair the Combine