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Universal Music Publishing China Hosts All-Female Writing Camp with She Is The Music Billboard 7 hrs ago Billboard Staff
After hosting an all-female songwriter camp in Beijing with global non-profit She is the Music in June, Universal Music Publishing (UMP) China hopes the initiative serves as the blueprint for future writer gatherings under its Untagged 2021 banner.
The mission of the Untagged series, according to
Joe Fang, who assumed the post of managing director of UMP China a year ago, is to highlight underrepresented groups and provide growth opportunities to younger songwriters. “Sometimes by default, when looking for new songs, clients will just look at the names of the songwriter and their previous track record,” he says. “With Untagged we want to present the music to partners and have them make judgments just based on listening to the song, not by judging who the writer is or how popular they are already.”
Participants in UMP China and She Is the Music s songwriting camp in Beijing.
Held in June, the Untapped 2021 camp connected UMP China songwriters with writers from other countries.
After hosting an all-female songwriter camp in Beijing with global non-profit She is the Music in June, Universal Music Publishing (UMP) China hopes the initiative serves as the blueprint for future writer gatherings under its Untapped 2021 banner.
The mission of the Untapped series, according to
Joe Fang, who assumed the post of managing director of UMP China a year ago, is to highlight underrepresented groups and provide growth opportunities to younger songwriters. “Sometimes by default, when looking for new songs, clients will just look at the names of the songwriter and their previous track record,” he says. “With Untapped we want to present the music to partners and have them make judgments just based on listening to the song, not by judging who the writer is or how popular they are alread
Tkay Maidza, Girls Rock Australia Network, in Spotify’s inaugural EQUAL Music Program Tkay Maidza
Tkay Maidza will represent Australia and New Zealand in Spotify’s inaugural EQUAL Music Program, which attempts to foster gender equity by supporting women under one brand.
The global movement also has Girls Rock Australia Network onboard the new EQUAL board.
An USC Annenberg study commissioned by Spotify found women only represented 20.2% of artists on the US
Billboard Hot 100 Year-End Charts, 45.1% were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups and 12.9% were songwriters.
Just 2.6% of the 100 tracks were produced by women, who earned a total of 33 producing credits, nine of which went to women of colour. The full program includes:
ACM nominee engineer Gena Johnson crafts hit records
KRISTIN M. HALL, AP Entertainment Writer
April 13, 2021
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1of5Gena Johnson poses in her home studio in Nashville, Tenn. on April 8, 2021. Johnson, a recording engineer, is the first woman to ever be nominated for engineer of the year by the Academy of Country Music.Mark Humphrey/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5Gena Johnson poses in her home studio in Nashville, Tenn. on April 8, 2021. Johnson, a recording engineer, is the first woman to ever be nominated for engineer of the year by the Academy of Country Music.Mark Humphrey/APShow MoreShow Less
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4of5Gena Johnson works in her home studio in Nashville, Tenn. on April 8, 2021. Johnson, a recording engineer, is the first woman to ever be nominated for engineer of the year by the Academy of Country Music.Mark Humphrey/APShow MoreShow Less