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12-08-2017, 08:20 AM
Spotify's most streamed artists are all men. The music industry needs to do better.
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Every holiday season, Spotify drops personal year-end playlists, and reveals the most streamed artists and songs of the year — which this year included no women, as individuals or performing in groups.*
Seriously. No women. That says something disturbing about gender inequality in the music industry.*
SEE ALSO: Ed Sheeran takes Drake's crown to become Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/spotify-year-in-music-2017/)
Ed Sheeran, Drake, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, and The Chainsmokers took the top spots for most streamed artists. The most streamed groups were Coldplay (thanks to their collaboration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7MFYoylVs) with The Chainsmokers), Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Linkin Park (most likely due to the death of frontman Chester Bennington (http://mashable.com/category/chester-bennington/)), and Migos.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/07/spotify-top-five-2017-all-men/)
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Every holiday season, Spotify drops personal year-end playlists, and reveals the most streamed artists and songs of the year — which this year included no women, as individuals or performing in groups.*
Seriously. No women. That says something disturbing about gender inequality in the music industry.*
SEE ALSO: Ed Sheeran takes Drake's crown to become Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2017 (http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/spotify-year-in-music-2017/)
Ed Sheeran, Drake, The Weeknd, Kendrick Lamar, and The Chainsmokers took the top spots for most streamed artists. The most streamed groups were Coldplay (thanks to their collaboration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM7MFYoylVs) with The Chainsmokers), Imagine Dragons, Maroon 5, Linkin Park (most likely due to the death of frontman Chester Bennington (http://mashable.com/category/chester-bennington/)), and Migos.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/07/spotify-top-five-2017-all-men/)
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