![]() ![]() Only 7% of the music industry workforce surveyed identifies as Black, a decrease of 0.8%, perhaps due to the impact of COVID-19 which disproportionately impacted underrepresented communities.The updated UK Music 2022 Diversity Report showed that: *Please note that this figure from the 2022 UK Music Workforce Diversity Report has decreased from 7.8% in 2020 The report also demonstrated income disparity.Those who identified as White accounted for 65.4% of the workforce at Entry Level and 80.1% at Senior Level.But this lowers to 6.4% at Senior Level.Those who identified as Black or Black British represented 15.8% of the workforce at apprentice/intern level and 12.6% of the workforce at Entry Level.There is a significant drop in representation as the workforce ages.Only 7.8% of the music industry workforce surveyed identifies as Black. ![]() The UK Music 2020 Diversity Report showed that: Lack of visibility, particularly in senior roles, at executive level, in Board rooms and for Black-led companies and organisations.Marginalisation and underrepresentation on stage, in studios, in the media and in every genre and sub-sector of the music industry.Structural and systemic racism and injustice.The significant barriers POWER UP is addressing include: Senior POWER UP Manager, Yaw Owusu chaired seven Focus Groups covering Recording and Publishing, Live, Platforms, Gender, Sexuality, Enterprise and Regionality.Īt its core, the POWER UP programme responds to the barriers facing Black music creators and Black industry professionals in the UK music industry. We established a POWER UP Executive Steering Committee in late 2020 to strategically steer the initiative, and more than 80 Black music executives and creators have come together to contribute and steer POWER UP. Step forward Power Up!” Ben Wynter, POWER UP Co-Founder Following on from Black Out Tuesday and seeing all of the posts of solidarity, I realised that there was an opportunity to seize the moment and put something in place that would encourage the dialogue to last beyond the 2020 BLM movement and have a lasting impact over the next decade and beyond. “Having been on the receiving end of unconscious bias and the structural and systemic anti-Black behaviour that occurs within our industry, I know first-hand just how important POWER UP is. It must be followed by commitments, accountability and action. But to bring about meaningful and lasting change, public solidarity is not enough. Many companies were galvanised to reflect, connect with Black communities and to support the Movement. In the run up to Black Out Tuesday and #TheShowMustBePausedUK in June 2020, the PRS Foundation team and board started the process of deeper and more open discussions which brought to light the many barriers facing Black people working in the UK music sector. The Black Lives Matter movement highlighted the structural and systemic anti-Black racism that occurs in today’s society. ![]()
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