Female artists have received only one in five Grammy nominations and wins over the last eight years, according to a new report.
Men led the nominations in 94% of the Grammy categories between 2017 and 2024, with women accounting for 19% of those nominated and winning awards in that time, a report produced by Akas (Addy Kassova Audience Strategy) has claimed.
Global stars Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus and Billie Eilish won three of the major awards in 2024 – including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year – but the report found only 24% of nominees and 32% of winners were women across the 94 categories last year.
The Missing Voices Of Women In Music And Music News report states it recorded the gender of 8,580 nominations and 2,003 wins across 103 categories between 2017 and 2024, some of which had been dropped and others introduced during the eight-year period.
It also found a number of Grammy Award categories have not featured any female winners for several years, including the Producer of the Year (non-classical) prize.
Winners of the coveted gong over the past eight years include Pharrell Williams, Greg Kurstin, Andrew Watt and Billie Eilish’s brother, Finneas O’Connell, for the hit album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Jack Antonoff, who produced Swift’s album Midnights, won the award in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
Last year, US singer Swift was nominated for six awards and made Grammy history as the first person to win Album of the Year four times after picking up the prize for Midnights, her 10th album.
However the artist is not the only individual who wins a Grammy for this category – the team of producers, mixers, sound engineers and songwriters also received awards, a group comprised of 11 men and two women, one of whom was Swift.
Solo female singers and all-female bands have also been missing from the Metal Performance and Orchestral Performance categories for the last eight years.
This year, across the 1,101 nominations in 94 categories, women have achieved their highest number of nominations of the last nine years, but with 28% of the nominations they are yet to make one third of the total nods, according to the report.
The methodology of the study explains that the women identified were either singular women or those in all-female groups.
To ensure non-binary artists and groups were correctly identified, a separate desk research analysis was carried out to identify Grammy nominees who identified as non-binary.
Researcher and journalist Luba Kassova, who authored the report, said she was “shocked to discover” that “women have never even reached a third of nominations or wins in any given year”.
The 67th Grammy Awards will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Beyonce leads the pack with 11 nods for her chart-topping country music album Cowboy Carter, which marked the follow-up to act one of the trilogy, Renaissance.
The US superstar made history during the Grammys ceremony in 2023, securing the most awards won in a lifetime after picking up her 32nd gong.
