In 2022, the Brit Awards merged its top artist prizes to include male, female and nonbinary acts. This year, the event faced backlash for not nominating any women.
look into there. thank you so much for coming in and - look into there. thank you so | much for coming in and taking us through that. finally, if you are a music fan, you will know that tomorrow night it s the brit awards the uk recording industry s annual event celebrating the most successful british and international music. the brits scrapped their best male and best female artist categories last year in favour of a gender neutral best artist award. problem is when this year s nominations were announced the shortlist was all male. critics say it points to a lack of equality in the industry where more than 80% of signed artists are male. vick bain is president of the independent society of musicians. where does this gender imbalance stem from? we have, what i call, we are emerging from a thousand year musical patriarchy. the musical industry is exceptionally male dominated and i don t think people realisejust dominated and i don t think people realise just how bad it is. people
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