Artists signed to major record labels dominated Irish radio playlists, while only three independent artists made it into the top 100 songs on Irish radio so far this year
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Mind the gap: Irish radio and gender disparity
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Irish radio stations urged to implement plans to tackle gender disparity in playlists
Data shows that 85% of Irish musicians played on Irish radio are male.
Irish female artists like Denise Chaila are getting more airplay after data collected from Irish radio stations between June and December 2020 found that 85% of the top 20 most played songs were performed by male musicians.
Mon, 01 Mar, 2021 - 09:40
Pádraig Hoare
Radio stations in Ireland have been urged by equality campaigners to implement comprehensive data-driven plans to counteract the glaring gender disparity of musicians receiving airplay.
The Why Not Her campaign compiled data from June to December 2020 on the top 20 most played songs by Irish artists on radio stations across the country, finding that 85% of artists in the top 100 airplay charts across all stations were male.
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âThe same homogenised male list that we viewed in the last report â Picture This, Gavin James, Dermot Kennedy, Wild Youth, Niall Horan and a new addition to the male echelons of the Irish scene, Robert Grace â dominate the top five chart positions on radio, with only Denise Chaila and Wyvern Lingo appearing once in the top five most-played tracks across Irish radio, on RTÃ 2FM,â Why Not Her? observes of the data.
The 39-strong supergroup Irish Women in Harmony, who recorded a
charity cover of the Cranberries song Dreams, appear multiple times but are outnumbered by mostly solo male acts.