Women in Music

For the first time ever, women were the only artists nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards and made up six of the eight nominees for Album of the Year. What does that tell you?

In 2024, women ruled the male-dominated music industry with a collective force we haven’t quite seen in, well, maybe ever. From the continued successes of pop titans Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Billie Eilish to the exciting breakthroughs of Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan, pop music has never been brighter, more fun, more honest, or in better hands than it is right now with women leading the charge, in a time when we need these voices most. As a certain icon said in one of the most talked about pop songs of the year, it’s a woman’s world and we’re lucky to be living in it.

The music industry has always been overflowing with talented and successful women, who tackle the unfairly high expectations of evolution and reinvention pushed upon them by fandoms and the public. But the women who dominated every genre of music throughout 2024, and all of the fans who bought their albums and attended their shows, have proven that more than one woman can win on the charts and in our hearts at once.