tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927785.post651381933497040829..comments2023-09-17T04:20:48.417-07:00Comments on Jaye Albright's Breakfast Blog: Has A Listener Ever Called You And Asked Why You Don't Play More Women Artists' Music?Albright and O'Malleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13933457732458275539noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927785.post-89955318651710879122013-09-27T15:10:30.319-07:002013-09-27T15:10:30.319-07:00"It's my experience, the only people aski...<i>"It's my experience, the only people asking programmers why they don't play more female acts are music promoters."</i><br /><br />I think the number and breadth of people wondering why has increased considerably over the past few years & the mainstream media has picked up on it. Consider the following recent articles: <br /><br /><a href="http://www.vulture.com/2013/09/rosen-on-country-musics-women-problem.html" rel="nofollow">9/2013 Culture Vulture: Does Country Music Have A Problem With Women?</a><br /><a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/boys-round-here" rel="nofollow">9/24/13 LA Review Of Books: 'Boys Round Here: Why The Women Of Country Music Are Very Different From The Men'</a><br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/09/10/cma-award-nominations-analysis-taylor-swift-kacey-musgraves/2795035/" rel="nofollow">9/10/13 USA Today: Why Doesn't Country Radio Love Women As Much As CMAs?</a><br /><a href="http://music-mix.ew.com/2013/08/21/luke-bryan-country-music-women-sales/" rel="nofollow">8/21/13 Entertainment Weekly: Luke Bryan On Country Music's Woman Problem</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2013/09/10/cma-nominees-revealed-for-2013/" rel="nofollow">9/10/2013 <i>Tennessean</i></a>:<br /><br /><i>At the moment there are no women inside the Top 10 on Billboard’s country airplay chart and only three female vocalists rank inside the Top 25.<br /><br />But radio’s penchant for male voices isn’t reflected in the nominations for the 47th annual CMA Awards.</i><br /><br />We're about 15 years removed from a time of more balance on country radio. Stronger gender balance on country radio playlists in the late 1990s is an argument against the idea that young girls are somehow shaped by an earlier preference for t40 radio. The real question is, what has changed about country radio listeners in 15 years?<br /><br />Methodology question. On the current Callout America chart, women 25-44 rank 4 out of the 8 songs in the sample sung by a female lead within the t20 (by total positive), 2 within the t10 (males 25-44 rank only 2 of the 8 in the t20). But on the current Radio Feedback chart, women 25-44 rank only 2 out of the 9 songs in the sample sung by a female lead in the t20. Callout America is a phone-based survey with random sampling across 20 markets. Radio Feedback samples self-selecting online survey takers, as does Rate The Music. Is there a bias in either survey that leads to results that are either more or less favorable to female acts, and if so, which more accurately reflects the bias of country radio listeners? It seems like stating the obvious that a group of self-selecting respondents is more likely to show some kind of skew than a random sample, but phone-based polling has its own issues (as Gallup found out the hard way in the 2012 presidential election). <br /><br /><i>"Millions of them grow to love country music, they see themselves as potential stars just like Carrie and Taylor, come in droves to Nashville with their self-involved perspective and run head long into the fact that Top 40 music is about fantasy and escape from reality while country music deals with adult realities, must be relevant to a wide demographic of not just their demographic peers but also to a "family" that spans four to six generations."</i><br />This feels ironic in light of the fact that it is artists like Kacey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood, and Miranda Lambert who offer singles that address adult realities ('Merry Go Round,' 'Jesus Take The Wheel,' 'The House That Built Me,' 'Blowin' Smoke,' 'Temporary Home,' 'All Kinds Of Kinds,' 'Follow Your Arrow,' 'See You Again,' 'Famous In A Small Town,' and so on). Meanwhile, as several of the articles linked above point out, the men these days seem mostly to be about partying, trucks, beer with hot chicks in tow.Windmills Countryhttp://twitter.com/WindmillsMusicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8927785.post-79223570305938412462013-09-26T15:56:57.518-07:002013-09-26T15:56:57.518-07:00Once Taylor Swift broke through in a big way, the ...Once Taylor Swift broke through in a big way, the Nashville Machine cranked out even more young female artists in the hope of cloning her success. All of a sudden there's all these new unfamiliar artists who all kinda sounded the same. Not really a recipe for cutting through.Buzz Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408708502925011938noreply@blogger.com