The Gender of Genre
Purpose: To determine what percent of Billboard top artists were male versus female. Source(s): Billboard 100 year-end Top Artists charts 2011-2020 ( https://billboard.com/charts/year-end ) ( n = 850). I manually scraped the information and used my personal knowledge, Wikipedia, and images to determine gender. There might be an error or two in coding. Corrections are welcome. Data is available here ( https://u.nu/kkIMw ). Highlights and Considerations: • Billboard rankings are based on digital songs sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring, and social engagement. • “Top Artists” were defined as lead singer(s) or primary composer for instrumentals. Bands wherein artist(s) gender was ambiguous were excluded (e.g., mixed-gender duos, choirs, orchestras; n = 33) and were common in Classical ( n = 16) and Christian ( n = 12) music. • Across above genres, women...