Just to get into the Music Industry is hard. There are millions and millions that are trying to make it. Finally, when you make a brand name for your self like Dolly Parton, Talor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire your told that your music WILL BE played on the radio but just not as much as it should be because your female.

Check out the recent interview with USA Today and how this whole thing was started.

A radio consultant cautioned country-music stations against playing back-to-back songs by women, and the backlash began as word began spreading on Music Row.

In an interview with Country Aircheck Weekly, a website and newsletter that focuses on country radio, consultant Keith Hill of South Padre Island, Texas said stations shouldn't play too many songs by women.

“If you want to make ratings in country radio, take females out,” he told Country Aircheck. “The reason is mainstream country radio generates more quarter hours from female listeners at the rate of 70% to 75%, and women like male artists.

The expectation is we're principally a male format with a smaller female component. I've got about 40 music databases in front of me and the percentage of females in the one with the most is 19%. Trust me, I play great female records and we've got some right now. They're just not the lettuce in our salad.

The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females.

For many, this is proof that female artists are being discriminated against in country radio. Only 20% are sung by female leads, solo or groups. Of the Top 50 songs that are 18 months or older, only 12 are sung by women and three women sing nine of the 12 songs.

Tracy Gershon, a Rounder Records executive, called Hill's comments reckless and irresponsible, saying that a woman who listens to pop artist Katy Perry is likely to listen to Miranda Lambert.

“This posting is taking us 20 steps backwards. It's an insult to every female artist,” said Senior Vice President Leslie Fram of Country Music Television.

When Country Aircheck Publisher Lon Helton edited the initial story, he didn't blink an eye because everyone in radio knows this, he said.

“Remember, since the 1960s, program directors have been telling people not to play two women back to back,” Helton said. “It has nothing to do with sexism. It has to do with the fact that through the years, you have had very few hits by women, so you want to spread them out a little bit because there are fewer of them.”

He also denied the lack of women on country radio is sexist, noting that female radio programmers make the same choices as their male counterparts.

I'm Still Outraged By This

I agree that a radio station should not just play female Country Songs all day, of course but what they should do is layer them evenly and stop making it seem that Country Female Artists are insignificant and should not be played as often.

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This Story Was Adapted From: USA Today