Exposing the music industry’s gender bias

Taylor Swift may be Spotify’s most-streamed artist of 2024, but she’s still an outlier in an industry dominated by men. A study we did together with the piano learning app Skoove, revealed that nearly 80% of the top 1,000 Spotify artists are male, while women represent just 20%, and non-binary artists a mere 0.4%.

The imbalance extends beyond Spotify. On the Billboard Hot 100, the gender gap among songwriters is even starker—6 to 1 in favor of men.

As Swift breaks records and reigns supreme, the question remains: When will the industry amplify all voices?