If you have been circling around the social media scene recently, you may have heard of Clubhouse. If not, you’re going to want to hop on this train before it’s too late! Clubhouse is a drop-in audio chat platform where users can speak to each other and listen to conversations on any given topic. The app launched in April 2020 and has since grown to house approximately ten million users.

Last month, Spotify’s HR Blog announced the implementation of their new ‘Work From Anywhere Movement’ in which the company’s employees can decide to come into the office or work remotely. This movement comes in light of COVID-19 social distancing regulations changing how many of us view the workspace. With the ‘Work From Anywhere’ movement, Spotify is allowing their employees to work from where they feel the most productive.

As March 8th, 2021 marked another year of International Women’s Day, a study released by USC Annenberg showed that there is “little to celebrate” when it comes to women in music. The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has conducted annual studies on how the music industry has progressed regarding increasing women representation.

Analyzing information from Billboard’s Top 100 Year-End charts from the past nine years, the study revealed that only 21.6% of artists featured between 2012 and 2020 were female. On a much finer scale, only 20.2% of artists from 2020’s Top 100 Chart were female, further proving that there has been no significant change in the music industry regarding allowing female artists’ voices to be heard. The conductor of the study, Stacy L. Smith says, “It is International Women’s Day everywhere, except for women in music, where women’s voices remain muted.”