Garth Brooks: Not enough women in country music

Country singer Garth Brooks has called for more gender diversity in the genre, saying his wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood, "works a thousand times harder than me to get a tenth as much as I do out of this business", BBC reports. Female country singers have seen a decline in airplay over the past two decades - the genre's most popular male artist, Kenny Chesney, was played on radio more than 6 million times between 2000 and 2018, and the top female, Carrie Underwood, was played only half as much. When it comes to country music charts, only one-fifth of the top 500 country songs from 2014-2018 were by female artists. As Musgraves told HuffPost - "It seems a group of 10 guys who all sound the same have no issue getting on the radio, but women who vary vastly from each other have a very hard time breaking through even in the smallest way on the country radio chart".