Where have all the flowers gone?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I was curious to see just how many homegrown female musicians are currently in the UK charts. Below are some figures taken from Everyhit for new entries in June 2007:

- 48 new entries

- 28 from UK artists (58%)

- 9 from acts featuring at least one female (18%)

- 2 from acts featuring at least one UK female (4%)

These two acts were:

The Zimmers - My Generation
Reverend & The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World

Well, quite. The new entries for April-May 2007 give a somewhat less bleak picture:

- 49 new entries

- 30 from UK artists (61%)

- 15 from acts featuring at least one female (31%)

- 6 from acts featuring at least one UK female (12%)

Those 7 acts were:

Melanie C - I Want Candy
Faithless ft Cass Fox - Music Matters
Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies
Groove Armada ft Stush - Get Down
Shirley Bassey - The Living Tree
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
(also, Ash would have been included here if Charlotte hadn't already left)

Winehouse, TashBed and Stush make things look promising; Melanie and Shirley make things look desperate.

The percentage of British acts in the charts is very encouraging for our music scene as a whole, but my inner Elastica-fan is sobbing at the fact that that 53% of the UK entries from the last three months are guitar bands and only ONE of those features a lass. Singing*. And it's a rubbish song. Perhaps the girls are better off out of it.

*I'm not dissing singers by any means, but where are all the girls who bought guitars by the fretful a few years back?

Comments

[bengraham.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I've warned you before about bracketing KT with s**t like Sandi Thom. Consider this a final warning.

It's interesting though that the UK female solo artists are much more successful across the pond than male solo artists or groups. KT, Amy Wino, Lily all having a lot of success Stateside, whilst I doubt if you'll find more than a handful of Americans who have a clue who The View or The Fratellis are.

Also, how did Kate Nash not appear in your chart rundown? She's just gone straight in at #2 this week.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

This week is offishaly* JULY!

*& actually

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

plus also, only six people like Nash

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I am grouping them together in the style of their music, not making any point about whether they are good or bad. I'm just trying to make a point, dude.

The US success aspect is an interesting one...