You’re joking? That’s the opposite of how it works. Radio sells records. Many men were handed top 5 singles yet sold far LESS than some women who didn’t chart top 10. Take Chuck Wicks, Jason Michael Carroll, Bucky Covington and nearly all new male artists who made top 5 vs. Miranda Lambert and Kellie Pickler. Miranda and Kellie outsold them all by a long shot long before they had a top 10, proving they are better and deserved more airplay but radio didn’t give it to them because they play 80% males regardless of sales. In fact radio program directors have said they ignore sales. Your sentence should state “More women would have sold more records if country radio played their songs more.” They only give 2 women, Carrie and Taylor, as much airplay as the men and both are also played on pop radio so that’s why they sell more. If more women were played more on country and pop radio they would sell a lot more records. Reba has a #1 now but country radio couldn’t give her and Taylor a top 5 at the same time so Taylor didn’t make it for the first time in over 2 years. When was the last time you saw 2 or 3 solo females in the top 5 at the same time?

I guess I meant that the individual talents of women in country tend to be stronger than the men, if that makes sense.

Examples? Lambert (strong singer and songwriter)
Underwood (one of the best singers in any genre)
Swift (One of the most creative writers in country)

I never totally agreed with the gender bias argument. How far can you really go
with that before putting blame on the artist?

I do think men had an impactg on the 200′s more so than the women. But Shania, Taylor Carrie, and the Chicks did well.

Say what you want about country radio’s gender bias, but it played the hell out of all of the albums by women in the top 10.

I think too that at least 7 of the top 10 albums benefited from crossover success – an almost exclusively female phenomenon when it comes to country artists.

And, of course, none of the above applies at all to “O Brother”.

Needless to say, I don’t much care for the blood guts and gore that modern movies too graphically display. I’d much rather have the bloodshed be off-screen or intimated

I couldn’t agree with you more. I’ll listen to males or females as long as their making good music. The lack of great music is the real problem with country radio these days, not the sex of the singers.

I’d be happy to find that combination from either gender these days in country music.