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Women and minorities are still underrepresented in leadership positions in the music industry, and the recent horrific events leading onto the #showmustbepaused have shone attention on some of the vast disparities in the music industry.
The UK music industry has several music industry trade bodies, representing writers, publishers, labels, independents, musicians, live venues and the wider commercial music industry.
Trade bodies are set up to actively educate, lobby and action change, and many organisations have released statements calling for diversity and change within the wider industry.
Companies need to look internally as well as externally. Diversity needs to be at every level within each organisation- from teams, through to senior management, CEO and board level roles.
This report is an analysis of the gender split and number of Black Women represented on the non-executive board, on the team and the CEO and Chairperson at each of the 12 UK Music Industry trade bodies included in this study.
A trade body is an organisation founded and funded by its members who operate in a specific industry.
These are typically non-profit organisations, providing supportive communities, who actively educate their members on the pressing issues affecting the wider industry.
Trade bodies also actively lobby and represent the interests of their specific industry and their members.
There are various organisations within the music industry representing writers, publishers, labels, independents, musicians, live venues and the wider commercial music industry.
This report looks at the make up of 12 of the key organisations.
AIM (Association of Independent Music), BASCA (Ivors Academy), BPI (British Phonographic Industry), FAC (Featured Artist Coalition), ISM (Incorporated Society of Musicians), MMF (Music Managers Forum), MPA (Music Publishers Association), MPG (Music Producers Guild, MVT (Music Venue Trust), PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd.), PRS (Performing Rights Society), & UK Music.
We have purposely not used BAME anywhere in this study. BAME can highly skew results as it essentially puts everyone non-white together in one group -see definition of BAME below.
We want to see real data of the current state of imbalance in the industry for Black Women in the industry. Therefore for the purpose of this study in addition to the gender analysis we have analysed the data for Black female representation in the 12 organisations.
BAME DEFINITION: The acronym BAME stands for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and is defined as all ethnic groups except White ethnic groups.
It is often incorrectly assumed that BAME only refers to Black and Asian people. BAME people, according to the Government include: Arabic people, Asylum seekers and refugees, Asian or Asian British people, Black(African/African Caribbean) or Black British people, Chinese people, People of mixed heritage, and Other (non white) ethnicities.
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