Universal Music Group (UMG) and the USCAnnenberg Inclusion Initiative are expanding their partnership to study systemic racial inequality in the music business, and how to create much-needed change.
Over the next several months, the partners plan to examine all facets of the industry -- major and independent music companies, labels and publishers, digital platforms, radio and live promoters; as well as artists' teams -- to determine the extent to which people of color are excluded from leadership positions. Annenberg will issue a report of the findings, providing recommendations for how the music industry can those inequalities.
"There are currently gaps in access and opportunity for people of color, especially Black executives, in the music business” said, an affiliated faculty member with the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the lead researcher for this project."Beyond placing a spotlight on these discrepancies, we must illuminate how the lack of people of color in key roles thwarts inclusion throughout the industry.
UMG first partnered with the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which was founded more than a decade ago by, in 2017 to study how women are underrepresented across recorded music. The initiative's bombshell first report the following year included the finding that only 22.4% of all performers across the 600 most popular songs from 2012 to 2017 were female; that report is now
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