Irish music charts 'largely ignore' women and people of colour - report

Imelda May, who just reached number 1 in the Official Irish Album Charts, the first Irish female since 2016 to do so, described the report as “alarming”.

Irish charts and radio “largely ignore” women and people of colour, according to the latest gender disparity report of the music industry.

The report, compiled by the Why not her? Collective, examined how female artists have fared in the Irish single charts over a 20-year period, with some years not featuring any women artists at all.