Concerning the two selected segments, the segment male has the largest population by gender with 53.5 percent. Contrastingly, female is ranked last, with 46.5 percent. Their difference, compared to male, lies at seven percentage points. The Statista Market Insights cover a broad range of additional markets.

According to a study on representation and equality in the music industry, only 6.5 percent of producers were female while approximately 93.5 percent were male. The share of female music producers has been increasing since 2017, despite the setback in 2020 and still leaving a significant gap in terms of proportionate representation. Gender inequality in the music industry Even though music audiences are as diverse as ever, and recent data has also indicated that male and female listeners account for similar shares of digital music users in the United States, there are still significant gaps when it comes to the representation of different groups. The share of female songwriters across the top 100 songs in 2020 stood at below 13 percent - a figure that has pretty much remained unchanged in the past decade. But this disparity not only unfolds behind the scenes: In 2020, just over 20 percent of artists on Billboard’s top 100 charts were female, and in genres like hip-hop or alternative, this share was even lower. Grammy Awards The fact that the music industry remains a male-dominated landscape is also reflected in the Grammy Awards. While the show made headlines by merging male and female categories back in 2012, the imbalances have remained. Data on the gender distribution of Grammy nominees collected between 2013 and 2021 shows that less than 10 percent of nominees for awards like Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Producer of the Year were female. And even though the playing field was much more balanced in the Best New Artist category, many artists still fail to get the spotlight they deserve.

According to a study on representation and equality in the music industry, female artists were most prevalent in the pop genre between 2012 and 2023. While female artists released roughly 34.7 percent of the highest-charting pop songs during that period, they only accounted for 14.9 percent of top songs in the hip-hop/rap genre. Women in the music industry Gender inequality remains an ongoing issue across all areas of the music industry. According to the findings of a recent report, the share of female songwriters on the Billboard Top 100 charts has stood below 13 percent for nearly a decade now, highlighting how little progress has been made in terms of equal representation in music over the years. Meanwhile, an even bigger representation gap can be observed when looking at the share of female producers in the United States. Women working as producers remain a rare sight, and between 2012 and 2020, only two to five percent of producers of the top-charting songs were female. Who are the top female solo artists? As of 2020, Nicki Minaj (Onika Maraj) and Rihanna (Robyn Fenty) were the two top-performing female solo artists in the United States, with 21 songs that placed on the Billboard Top 100 charts each. Six out of the top 13 performers in this ranking were women, and while four of them fall under the pop category, two female artists (Nicki Minaj and Cardi B) release hip-hop/rap music. Considering that the latter genre is particularly hard to break into for women, the recent wave of successful female rappers (spearheaded by Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Doja Cat, to name a few) might indicate the beginning of a new musical era.

The statistic provides data on favorite music genres among consumers in the United States as of July 2018, sorted by age group. According to the source, 52 percent of respondents aged 16 to 19 years old stated that pop music was their favorite music genre, compared to 19 percent of respondents aged 65 or above. Country music in the United States – additional information

In 2012, country music topped the list; 27.6 percent of respondents picked it among their three favorite genres. A year earlier, the result was one percent lower, which allowed classic rock to take the lead. The figures show, however, the genre’s popularity across the United States is unshakeable and it has also been spreading abroad. This could be demonstrated by the international success of (among others) Shania Twain or the second place the Dutch country duo “The Common Linnets” received in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014, singing “Calm after the storm.”

The genre is also widely popular among American teenagers, earning the second place and 15.3 percent of votes in a survey in August 2012. The first place and more than 18 percent of votes was awarded to pop music, rock scored 13.1 percent and landed in fourth place. Interestingly, Christian music made it to top five with nine percent of votes. The younger generation is also widely represented among country music performers with such prominent names as Taylor Swift (born in 1989), who was the highest paid musician in 2015, and Hunter Hayes (born in 1991).

Country music is also able to attract crowds (and large sums of money) to live performances. Luke Bryan’s tour was the most successful tour in North America in 2016 based on ticket sales as almost 1.43 million tickets were sold for his shows. Fellow country singer, Garth Brooks, came second on the list, selling 1.4 million tickets for his tour in North America in 2016.

Like music, movies can be hard to pin down when it comes to which genre they are most aligned with. Cross-genre or hybrid-genre movies often have a broader appeal than those firmly lodged within a single genre – in fact, the latter types of movies can be quite divisive. A key example of this could be seen in a survey held in late 2018, which examined the most popular movie genres among adults in the United States based on gender, age, ethnicity, income, and more. The study revealed that comedy was the favorite genre among 90 percent of men and 91 percent of women, though drama, adventure, and action were similarly popular.

U.S. movie genre preferences

In the U.S., movie genre preferences varied greatly according to age when it came to stereotypically divisive genres like musicals and romantic films – 64 percent of women cited musicals as their favorite genre, compared to 48 percent of men.

Comedies, thrillers, fantasy and adventure films were considered similarly favorable by each gender, with 84 percent of men saying that they had a very or somewhat favorable impression of thriller or mystery films compared to 83 percent of female respondents.

The movie genre that has generated the most revenue at the North American box office since 1995 is the adventure genre, having brought in 58.84 billion U.S. dollars of revenue since that year. Second on the list is the action genre, which has box office takings of 44.15 billion U.S. dollars. Drama ranked third, and is a genre popular not only with consumers but also with producers – over 5.1 thousand drama movies have been released in the U.S. since the mid 1990s.

In Norway, 62 percent of males reported buying films or music online in the past 12 months, making them the most popular category for men. Clothes and sports goods orders were the most popular category for women, at 62 percent.