Gender of Your Best of Charts.

[qwert9579]

I thought it would be interesting to see how gender is weighted in everybody's top 100.
Basically just the lead singer was all I looked at in mine and I even counted a few albums as both for having a male and female split quite evenly. It really is up to you how you define each album.

I've just gone through my chart and the results were as follows:

86 albums had a male lead

11 had a female lead

and 3 had both.

I'd be interested to see if this unbalance in favour of males is a popular trend.

[Defago]

[MrFrogger]

How are we defining lead and split? An album like VU&N female vocals on 3 songs, would that be enough to constitute split?

I'll do this with my chart at somepoint when I'm free.

[besteveruser]

Well I think it's important to look at more than just vocals. Electronic and other albums without vocals should be noted somehow.

In my top 50 chart, I have 25 male solo artists and all-male groups. I counted The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen in this group despite having one song sung by a female, because she wasn't really part of the group. I also counted Purple Rain here, but maybe I should consider it less of a male solo album and acknowledge the females in his backing band. So maybe 24 here and one more gender split album.

I have 14 female solo artists/all-female groups in my chart. Though many of them collaborated with male songwriters and producers and their albums could be considered gender split.

I counted 11 albums with a gender split, though I counted Basement Jaxx and 2ManyDJs here because their albums had such a strong female vocal presence, as much as a female pop album.

So my chart doesn't have the ideal gender split, but I gotta say I feel pretty good when I look at other people's lists on here and can count on one hand the females in their top 100 lists. The overall chart is kinda sickening to me for that reason.

[Hammy]

going by just participants regardless of if there are vocals or not: 74 male groups/artists, 11 female groups/artists, and 15 mixed. (counting orchestra/classical pieces as male due to the composers and being pretty lenient with mixed - counting 1 female and 3 males as mixed for example)

[BrandonMiaow]

Just gonna do vocals since it is easier that way. So, instrumental albums are gonna be discounted. I have a clear preference.

Female: 44
Male: 16
Both: 6

May have miscounted at some point.

[benpaco]

I think I only have 1 album with a female lead vocalist on my whole chart. Which honestly is embarrassing, as I have nothing against female vocalists, I've just found more albums I've liked with male vocalists, I suppose.

That said, San Fermin and TATE have female vocalists, just not leads ... and a lot of other bands have female members ...

This has legitimately always been a problem of mine with my own chart, but its just reflective of my honest tastes.
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[Norman Bates]

87 male
12 female
1 mixed

[satiemaniac]

70 male
20 female
10 mixed

wow very weird that happened that way with such evenness

also for fun, used us census ethnicity categories as a very rough way of showing ethnic diversity, adding on Latino as a catch-all to not split people across others:
64 White
18 Black or African (-American on census)
14 Asian
3 Latino
1 Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
0 American Indian and Alaska Native

feels weird not to have American Indian music anywhere on the list, seeing as i really enjoy a decent amount. and my increasing interest in Brazilian and Hispanic music will probably increase the volume of Latino artists on my overall. will definitely be re-evaluating some releases/my chart and interesting idea for a thread!

[NowhereMan]

Completely male - dominated, more or less.
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