Yes, I had to sing with someone with a penis to get a No. 1. | | | | Wednesday mood: CucakKe at Le Poisson Rouge, New York April 12, 2017.
(J. Kempin/Getty Images) | | | | | |  | "Yes, I had to sing with someone with a penis to get a No. 1."
| | | | | | rantnrave:// Three years after Nashville's "tomato-gate" scandal, in which a radio consultant said out loud (oops!) that female singers are the tomatoes in country music's salad and are bad for ratings and should only be served in tiny portions, and in which women all but pelted the consultant with actual tomatoes, he and all of country radio have atoned and put women back on the air. LOL, J/K. Things have actually gotten worse. Last year was a particularly bad year for women on country radio by almost any measurement (to be fair, if you can actually call this fair, it was a bad year for women across all of music, statistically speaking). This is what a recent country airplay chart looks like when you remove all the men. And here's one with all the women removed, though you may have to squint to notice. (Both courtesy the must-read Twitter account WOMAN NASHVILLE.) And this is in a year in which a female-fronted song has topped the BILLBOARD singles chart for 50 straight weeks. That's to say, "MEANT TO BE," by BEBE REXHA and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE, has been the #1 song for the entirety of 2018. Both Bebe and her voice are female. But the women who listen to country radio don't want to listen to women on country radio, according to the men who program country radio. Read that sentence as many times as you need to. That sentence has a better chance of being named Entertainer of the Year at tonight's CMA AWARDS than any woman does, inasmuch as all five nominees are men. Twelve of the 13 nominees for the five slots at the prestigious New Faces of Country Music showcase at the upcoming Country Radio Seminar are also very much male. The seminar's executive director blames that on the organization's rules, which are based on what the organization's member programmers are playing on their radio stations, which are based on—let's just say no artist could draw a circle as perfect as that circular reasoning. On the bright side, KACEY MUSGRAVES' GOLDEN HOUR, the only album by a woman up for Album of the Year tonight, is one of the favorites to win. And country's long-reigning queen, MIRANDA LAMBERT, has a shot to pick up a trophy or two for "DROWNS THE WHISKEY," her first legit radio hit in years. Lambert owes both of those accomplishments to one particular thing. The throwback honky-tonk heartbreak tune is a collaboration with (her words) "someone with a penis." The CMAs air live from Nashville at 8 pm ET on ABC. MusicSET: "On Country Radio, Tomato Salad Is Still on the Menu"... Despite every obstacle in their way, women somehow manage to keep making music. Kudos to SPOTIFY and SOUNDGIRLS for launching this interactive directory of producers, engineers and other women working in the field... BLACK-ISH went all Purplish Tuesday night... PANDORA has a genome for podcasts... This is a good festival lineup... The real drummer and real guitarist hired (duped, they say) to tour Europe with that all-but-fake hard-rock band with completely fake fans spill the beans in separate interviews, both fascinating reads. Spoiler: The pay was not good... RIP LUCHO GATICA, DAVE "SCARFACE" CASTILLO and NIKKI DELAMOTTE. | | | - Matty Karas, curator | | | | | | | give us any chance we'll take it | |  | Wired | | Ableton Loop, now in its fourth year, moved its festivities to Los Angeles, where hundreds of aspiring musicians convened to network and learn new tricks. | | | |  | Complex | | In the 1980s and '90s, the Five Percent Nation was synonymous with hip-hop. Here's how today's artists are trying to spread knowledge of self. | | | |  | REDEF | | Three years after Nashville's "tomato-gate" scandal, in which a radio consultant said out loud (oops!) that female singers are bad for ratings, country radio has atoned and put women back on the air. LOL, J/K. Things have actually gotten worse. | | | |  | Music Business Worldwide | | Sony and Universal still own around 6% of Spotify -- and won't want to see the company's value crumble. | | | |  | Pitchfork | | After decades of delays and a ban by the Queen of Soul herself, the documentary companion to her classic 1972 album finally made its debut this week. | | | |  | Vulture | | "Black-ish" turned its 100th episode into a half-hour tribute to the music and legacy of Prince Rogers Nelson. 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