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We envision a music industry that values a level playing field and strives to give an equal voice to all people.
artists from 230 countries and territories
We group artists into six tiers to reflect their footprint in the music world. At the top are the Legendary—icons who’ve been shaping music for over 30 years. Superstars are today’s household names who have released music in the past three decades. The Mainstream tier features well-known acts with wide appeal. Mid-Level and Developing artists are new talents gaining momentum, and then we have Undiscovered—millions of creators waiting to be heard.
*Chartmetric career stage is based on Chartmetric artist score (an aggregate of various measures of success across different platforms). A more in-depth description of each stage can be found in our methodology section.
Chartmetric tracks more than 1,000 genres, explore the gender breakdown by genre here.
Chartmetric has pronoun data for artists from 230 countries and territories. Explore the breakdown of pronouns of solo artists by country in this chart.
The music industry has long struggled with gender inequality, and yet there’s still a lack of accessible, artist-level data that shows just how deep the imbalance runs. Chartmetric’s Make Music Equal project aims to help change that by building a dataset focused on the self-declared pronouns of artists — a starting point for understanding who is (and isn’t) being represented.
While pronouns don’t always align perfectly with gender identity, they offer a publicly available, artist-defined way to begin tracking gender equity across the industry. By analyzing this data at scale, the project highlights the gender gaps that persist in everything from festival lineups to streaming playlists. Our goal is to make the problem visible — because what gets measured gets changed.
Check out our articles focused on gender representation in the music industry on our blog “How Music Charts"
We update the database every month on the 5th. All pronouns are pulled from public bios on social media and streaming platforms. Due to the dynamic nature of personal identifiers, pronouns listed may be outdated or incorrect. We do our best to keep this database as accurate as possible, please email hi@chartmetric.com if you want update information in the database. We focus on pronouns because they’re often publicly shared—and we don’t want to make assumptions about anyone’s gender identity.