A new study by the nonprofit initiative Fix the Mix has found significant statistics to confirm a lack of women and nonbinary representation across all genres of music.
The initiative was launched in 2022 by We Are Moving the Needle, a nonprofit that began Fix the Mix. They used the database Jaxsta in conjunction with Middle Tennessee State University and Howard University to determine the metrics.
Important numbers include that in the top most-streamed tracks of 2022, only 6.7% of the credited producers and engineers were women or non-binary.
Furthermore, among the top 50 songs across 14…