On Racial Diversity Test, BMAC Says Industry Is Barely Passing: 'Average Isn't Good Enough'

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The Black Music Action Coalition releases first annual Music Industry Action Report Card, assessing industry's progress in advancing racial diversity

there's major concern"that many of the changes appear to be surface. They appear to be just enough as opposed to manifesting a deep, internal churning and transformational change leading toward true equity. And so many of the grades are merely passing. When it comes to justice, average isn’t good enough."opens with a forward by Brown and her fellow co-president.

Section four reveals the grades that BMAC assigned to the major labels, publishing companies, Recording Academy, DSPs, live music firms and talent agencies in assessing their efforts to foster sustainable change between June 2020 and June 2021.

Assessing the Music Industry's Progress 1 Year After Blackout Tuesday: 'We Need to Build a Bigger Table' Among the major label groups, not one received an A in any of the four areas. For instance, Sony Music earned B’s for representation, execution/follow-up and additional actions but a C in initial corporate statement and commitment for lack of “public news about earlier disbursements by Sony U.S." through its global justice fund prior to the company’s announced third round of giving in May.

Despite Black executive vps and presidents at its Warner Records and Atlantic divisions, Warner Music Group scored a D in company representation. Noted BMAC,"According to Warner’s corporate structure included on its website, there are no Black executives at the company who report directly to WMG chairmanBMAC rated DSPs/streaming firms, live music companies and talent agencies as excellent , satisfactory , needs improvement or unsatisfactory in their efforts to institute change.

 

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