BPI to host Women in the Music Industry event on 8 March

The event will coincidence with International Women’s Day and forms part of a newly launched series which focuses on equality in the music industry.

The event will be hosted by Jasmine Dotiwala and Indy Vidyalankara and speakers will include the BPI’s MJ Olaore and Maggie Crowe OBE, as well as Paulette Long OBE, Liz Goodwin (Atlantic Records UK) and Pat Carr (Remote Control Agency). Other guests will include Pamela McCormick (Urban Development), Natalie Wade (Small Green Shoot), Janine Irons MBE (Tomorrow’s Warriors) and Wozzy Brewster OBE FRSA (The Midi Music Company).

The event will start at 6pm CAT, and interested participants can get tickets to the show here.

In other news, the UK’s Music Managers Forum (MMF) will bring back its Unite series of virtual events which focus on race, racism and injustice. The series will kick off with a panel titled Black Women Mean Business on 9 March. The event is free to attend and will start at 8pm CAT. Interested participants can register here.

The panel will be hosted by Whitney Asomani (Twenty:Two) and will feature guests such as Nike Durosaro (Big Drum Entertainment), Shikayla Nadine (SNM Management) and Shauni Caballero (The Go 2 Agency).

“I’m happy to be involved in this year’s series of talks and I'm looking forward to chatting with some brilliant minds across the business and unpacking topics that may lead to the discovery of new practises and understanding of our industry and the way we work,” Asomani said. “For this series, we are reaching out to people who can provide interesting perspectives, alternative methodologies and challenge the status quo.”

Meanwhile, ahead of International Women’s Day next week, Deezer has published the results of an analysis of the gender splits for different genres’ top 100 artist charts on its service in the past 12 months.

Electronic had the least representation of female musicians with 4%, followed by rock and hip hop, which were both 7%. Pop boasts the highest representation by female artists at 42%, closely followed by R&B (39%) and soul (26%). Women representation in other genres included alternative (15%), country (15%), jazz (14%) and classical (11%).