Popular Music Chart Analysis: Billboard Hot 100, March 14, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the top 15 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 14, 2012. The analysis includes details about each song's title, artist, songwriters, producers, and genre. It also examines the gender distribution among the vocalists and musicians, highlighting the dominance of male artists and the limited role of female instrumentalists. The report references relevant literature, such as Leonard's work on gender in the music industry and Farrugia's research on women in electronic/dance music. The findings support the hypothesis that women are often limited to the role of vocalists, with little involvement in the technical aspects of music production. The report concludes by discussing the implications of these gender dynamics within the popular music landscape, including a statistical breakdown of the gender representation within the top songs.

Part 1: Popular Music Chart Analysis
Top 15 songs on 14th March 2012.
1. Song title: We Are Young
This song was recorded by an American band Fun featuring fellow American artist
Janelle Monae. We Are Young was produced by Jeff Bhasker. The video of the song was
Marc Klasfeld. It was shot at David Sukonick Concert Hall situated in Los Angeles.
Fun band is composed of the lead singer Nate Ruess, Guitarist Jack Antonoff and
Andrew Dost who played bass guitar and vocalist.
Janelle Monae inspired women to fight for their space in the society.
2. Song title: Stronger(What Doesn’t Kill You)
This song was written by Jorgen Elofsson, Ali Tamposi and David Gamson and recorded
by Kelly Clarkson. The producer of Stronger was Greg Kurstin. The genre of the song is
dance-pop and electropop.
Kelly Clarkson was responsible for ‘The Voice’.
3. Song title: Set Fire To The Rain
The single was recorded by an English singer-song writer Adele Adkins under producer
Fraser T Smith. The lyrics were composed by Adele in conjunction with her producer
Fraser Smith in 2010. The genre of the song is pop-soul. Vocals were done by Adele,
drums by Ashley Soan and strings performed by Wired Strings.
Adelle fought for equality in the society as well as justice to the oppressed.
4. Song title; Glad You Came
This song was written by Steve Mac, Wayne Hector and Ed Drewett. It was then
recorded by The Wanted. The Wanted is a British band composed of three males Steve
Mac, Wayne Hector and Ed Drewett. The genre of the song is eurodance.
5. Song title: Part of Me
Artist: Katy Perry
This song was written by Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin and Bonnie McKee.
Dr. Luke, Max Martin and Cirkut were the producers of this song. The genre of the song
is power pop.
Katy Perry used music to expound on liberal feminism.
6. Song title: Starships
Artist: Nicki Minaj
This song was written by Onika Maraj, Nadir Khayat, Carl Falk, Rami Yacoub, Wayne
Hector and Bilal Hajji. It was then produced by RedOne, Rami Yacoub and Carl Falk.
The genre of the song is Eurodance.
Nicki Minaj is a supporter for women’s right as well as freedom of speech.

7. Song title: Young, Wild and Free
Artist: Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa featuring Bruno Mars
The lyrics of this song were written by Calvin Broadus, Tom Scott, Tyrone Griffin, Nye
Lee, Max Bennett among others. The production was done by The Smeezingtons. Mixing
was done by Ari Levine while Travis Marshall was the engineer and Chris Gehringer did
the mastering bit. The genre of the song is pop-rap.
Snoop Dog is advocating for freedom of choice to religion.
8. Song title: Turn Me On
Artist: David Guetta featuring Nicki Minaj
This song was written by David Guetta, Onika Maraj, Giorgio Tuinfort and Ester Dean. It
was produced by Guetta, Tuinfort and Black Raw. The song is classified under the genre
EDM(Farrugia, 2004).
David Guetta was vocal to respect to human life and spoke against murder.
9. Song title: Somebody That I Used To Know
Artist: Gotye featuring Kimbra
This song was written by Wally De Backer. Lucas Taranto was playing bass guitar, the
artwork was done by Frank De Backer and Kat Kallady while Kimbra was leading and
backing the vocals. Wally De Backer was also actively involved in production, mixing,
playing guitar, xylophone, flutes and synthesizer.
Gotye is a strong advocate for proper education to all.
10. Song title: We Found Love
Artist: Rihanna Featuring Calvin Harris
‘We found love’ was written by Calvin Harris. Rihanna was the vocalist while Marcos
Tovar did the recording with the assistance of Calvin Harris and Alejandro Barajas. Phil
Tan and Damien Lewis were mixing. The genre of the song is Electro house(Leonard,
2017).
Rihanna is a political critique.
11. Song title: Take Care
Artist: Drake featuring Rihanna
‘Take care’was written by Aubrey Graham, Noah Shebib, Anthony Palman and James
Smith. Vocals were recorded by Noah Shebib with the assistance of Jamie. The guitarists
were Romy Croft and Noah Shebib. The genre of the song is Hip Hop.
Drake was a critique of stereotyping of races as far as terrorism is concerned.
12. Song title: Good feeling
Artist: Flo Rida
This song was written by Flo Rida, Pearl Woods, Cirkut, Arash Pournouri and Etta
James. The song was produced by Dr. Luke with the assistance of Cirkut. The genre of
the song is Hip house.

13. Song title: International Love
Artist: Pitbull featuring Chris Brown
Song was produced by Soulshock and Peter Biker. They were also involved in
instrumentation and song writing. Other song writers were Sean Hurley, Pitbull and
Claude Kelly. Mixing was done by Manny Marroquin, Chris Galland and Erik Madrid.
The song falls under the electro pop genre.
14. Song title: Sexy And I Know It
Artist: LMFAO
The song was written by Kenneth Oliver, Erin Beck, David Listenbee, Robertson George
and Stefan Gordy. The producer was Redfoo, GoonRock and Audiobot. The genre of the
music is EDM.
15. Song title: The Motto
Artist: Drake featuring Lil Wayne
Songwriters for this song were Tyler Williams, Shahid Reshi, Salvatore Casto, Dwayne
Carter, Aubrey Graham and Cobey. The producer was T-Minus. The song is categorized
as hip hop.
Lil Wayne was in forefront to discourage people to accept homosexuality in the music
industry.
We Are Young Janelle Monae Female American Vocalist
Stronger(What Doesn't
Kill You) Kelly Clarkson Female American Vocalist
Set Fire To The Rain Adele Adkins Female British Songwriter
Glad You Came
The Wanted
Band Males British Vocalist
Part Of Me Katy Perry Female American Songwriter
Starship Nicki Minaj Female Trinidad and Tobago Vocalist
Young, Wild and Free Snoop Dogg Male American Vocalist
Turn Me On David Guetta Male French Songwriter
Somebody That I Used
To Know Gotye Male Australian Producer
We Found Love Rihanna Female American Vocalist
Take Care Drake Male American Vocalist
Good feeling Flo Rida Male American Songwriter
International love Pitbull Male American Vocalist
Sexy And I Know It LMFAO Males American Vocalist
The Motto Lil Wayne Male American Vocalist
53.3% are men 66.7% are Americans
46.7% are 6.7% are French

Women
6.7% are Australian
6.6% are from Trinidad
and Tobago
13.3% are British
References
Leonard, M., 2017. Gender in the music industry: Rock, discourse and girl power. Routledge, Pp
43.
Farrugia, R., 2004. Sisterdjs in the house: Electronic/dance music and women-centered spaces on
the net. Women's Studies in Communication, 27(2), pp.236-262.