Latest report from Women in CTRL for the live sector 👇

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Congratulations Nadia Khan on her MBE for services to music @NadiaCTRL #KingsBirthdayHonours

🎵🌟 In London with talented mastering engineer Natalie & cold producer/mixengineer Helene🔥 When I started producing music I hardly knew any women that do it, so was nice to get together at this special @womeninctrl ‘Seat At The Table’ launch

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What six years of tracking music industry boards has taught me - @NadiaCTRL for @MusicWeek ✍️

"“In 2024, the sector collectively met both UK Music 10 Point Plan targets, but in 2026 neither is met collectively. The lesson from six years of tracking music industry boards is not embedded into governance structures does not last.

The UK music industry is often cited internationally as a leader in diversity commitments. The data suggests the next challenge is ensuring those commitments are structurally embedded.

Without structural embedding, change is unstable and reversible. A historic milestone means very little if it can be undone in a single board renewal cycle. The reversal in these figures shows that the sector’s progress remains fragile.”

Today, @womeninctrl published the 2026 Seat At The Table report, in association with the BPI 🤝

Marking six years of tracking representation on UK music trade association boards, the latest edition records the first simultaneous decline in both gender and intersectional representation since 2020.

Read more here: musicweek.com/labels/read/wh…

Women In Ctrl asks ‘What is inclusion without authority?’ musically.com/2026/01/15/wom… via @MusicAlly

Mentioned: Lethal Bizzle, @LiveMusic_UK @AIM_UK @mattgoss @NME @gallowsofficial @BBCR1 @laughta1 @DwntwnMusicPub @cleosol & many more!

I really enjoyed this week’s TMT conversation with @NadiaCTRL. Nadia has truly blazed a trail through the music industry, both as a pioneering artist manager and through her campaigning work at @womeninctrl , so do give this episode a listen…

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Sarah Jessica Parker talks about double standards between male & female characters in television:

“A male lead on a show can be a murderer, and people love him. If a woman has an affair, behaves poorly, or spends money foolishly […] there’s a kind of punitive response to it.”

4 out of 16 organisations have already reached 50/50 gender representation on their boards.

AFEM, MVT, MMF & FAC have strong gender balance on boards, but across the board, global majority representation remains low.

#seatatthetable #womeninmusic

0% of Chairs or CEOs across the UK live sector are women from a global majority background.

This report sets a baseline for accountability. Representation matters, especially at the top.

#womeninMusic #SeatAtTheTable

This report is the first to benchmark intersectional leadership in the UK live music sector.

LIVE and Women in CTRL will host an industry roundtable April 23rd to turn this data into action and develop a sector-wide pledge for change.

The data is clear. Now it’s time to act.

Women and non-binary people make up 41% of board members across LIVE member orgs…
But only 27% of CEOs.

Representation matters, especially at the top.

#RepresentationMatters #seatatthetable

. @LiveMusic_UK & @womeninctrl launch landmark report on gender diversity in UK live industry: musicweek.com/live/read/live… #musicindustry

The data is clear. Now it’s time to act.

Women in CTRL x @LIVE_Music_UK launch Seat at the Table: LIVE Edition 2025, the first report benchmarking gender & ethnicity in UK live music leadership.

Read it now: womeninctrl.com
#SeatAtTheTable #WomenInCTRL