2019-04-19 // The Gender Gap on the Music Charts - a podcast by Chartmetric: Music Analytics for the New Music Business

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Highlights
- Digging into the music charts Gender Gap with data scientist Joshua Hayes

Mission
- Good morning, it’s Jason here at Chartmetric with your 3-minute Data Dump where we usually upload charts, artists and playlists into your brain so you can stay up on the latest in the music data world.

Gender Gap article
- Today, we’re going to do something a little more in-depth.
- A few days ago, Chartmetric released a blog article about the gender gap in the music charts, to include Billboard, Spotify and Apple Music charts and also across country boundaries and genres.
- Check it out, article link is the show notes.
- But first, let me introduce the author of the piece, data scientist and newest team member of Chartmetric, Josh Hayes.
- Josh is a Data Science Doctoral Fellow, Sociology PhD from UC Davis with additional degrees at Stanford and Michigan State, and is neck deep in data science projects.
- Gist of the article
- The converging of Spotify, Apple Music and Billboard
- Chartmetric Score - connection to revenue
- Super high/low female track, baseline male track dynamic
- Post-Grande era
- Genres
  - Pop
  - Latin
  - Hip-Hop
  - Country
  - All Genres

Outro
- That’s it for your Daily Data Dump for Friday April 19th 2019. This is Jason from Chartmetric.
- Free accounts are at app.chartmetric.com/signup
- And article links and show notes are at a new website: podcast.chartmetric.com.
- Happy Friday, have a lovely weekend!

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