Carrie Underwood Speaks Out Against Lack of Females In Charts
However, Carrie's beef is not with the subject of songs, but rather who's singing them. The fact is, the only female in the Billboard Hot Country Songs top 20 right now is Miranda Lambert's feature on Keith Urban's 'We Were Us'. Taylor Swift is the first female artist to have a whole spot on the chart, with 'Red' at #21, and you quite happily argue against her being country.
This is a regular occurrence, one that I've reported on many times before, and it's true for both sales charts and country radio. There's simply no women getting any success. In fact, the last female #1 was Carrie Underwood with 'See You Again' at radio, a couple of months ago now, and it was probably a while before that that any other women got to #1. What's even more worrying is when Carrie did get that #1, there were no other females in the top 20. They've been pushed out almost entirely, and it's not as if women aren't making good music. They're making plenty of it because each week I review more of it and it's all great, the fans just aren't buying it/requesting it.
Carrie had a slightly more positive attitude on the subject, "I would love to see that a little more equaled out, but it will happen. We’ll get there."
Mentioning female pioneers like Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, Carrie continued, "I think it took all those people to pave that for us. I still think we have a long way to go."