Friday Figures - 31 Jan

Gender Representation Danish Top 100 Albums in 2024

5 Danish women are int the Top 100 most popular albums 2024. Only one of these albums is a new release, which means that only one album released by a woman in all of 2024 has made it to the Top 100 - and it sits at number 95.

Like Pelle Peter, we are not exactly shocked. When there has been a bogeyman in the closet for 20 years, it’s only natural that it starts to lose its power to scare us.

BUT – it is absurd. 5 Danish women in the Top 100 in 2024.

And yes, it is true: we cannot change culture and structural inequality with a snap of the fingers or with a single initiative. That much is obvious. But we absolutely can work faster than we are now. There has been significant focus on this issue over the past five years, but the visible and tangible changes are practically nonexistent.

If the pace we’ve seen so far is what we plan to continue with, and we remain content with arguments that things cannot move faster than they already are, then no substantial changes will come during this generation’s time. We all know what happens as a result: balance will never emerge, and this issue simply won’t resolve itself.

This problem is so massive and damaging that we cannot continue waiting for those who guard the gates to decide it is convenient for their own business to create change. Let’s implement some concrete regulations now, and behavior will follow. We have plenty of examples to back this up.

And let’s also take a moment to say congratulations to Annika Wedderkopp for finding her way into the Top 100 in 2024. That’s truly impressive!

Read the report here.