{"id":4028,"date":"2022-05-17T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/?post_type=in-conversation&#038;p=4028"},"modified":"2022-05-17T08:51:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T08:51:45","slug":"christine-osazuwa-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"in-conversation","link":"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/in-conversation\/christine-osazuwa-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Conversation: Christine Osazuwa Part III of III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In part III (below), Christine and Marc talk about the trouble with diversity inside the major labels and the music industry. Christine introduces Marc to the idea of \u201cCross-Genre Training\u201d and \u201cRandom Pairings\u201d. She suggests that the problem is not in the lack of diversity in the people coming into the music business, the problem occurs when they try to move up the corporate ladder. Christine also suggests that people need to get uncomfortable in order to change things. The interview ends with a few rapid-fire questions from the audience in attendance. Christine offers up tips and tricks on making your way into the music ecosystem.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#abb8c3\" class=\"tadv-color\">The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Miss Part I? Find it <a href=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/in-conversation\/christine-osazuwa-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em> <em>Miss Part II? Find it <a href=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/howwelisten\/in-conversation\/christine-osazuwa-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc Brown: <\/strong>You are part of an<strong> <\/strong>employee resource group called The Link at Warner Music, and it is for employees of colour and allies with the Warner Music Group. What are some of the things that are important to that group within a company? It doesn\u2019t need to be specific to Warner because I\u2019m almost certain that this is the same everywhere.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine Osazuwa: <\/strong>This is very much an industry as a whole thing, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmg.com\/news\/warner-music-group-announces-global-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-institute-and-commitments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">representation is incredibly important.<\/a> If you look up or if you look to the right or left, and you see no one that looks like you or has a background like you, you see no one that has an experience like you. It\u2019s challenging to see yourself higher up in the industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve had a lot of conversations about the ethnicity and gender pay gap to make sure that there&#8217;s transparency there so we can work on improving that, for example.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve had conversations about genre and how to become a label president or high up in a major label without having a pop background but a hip-hop background or a dance background. Like the idea of \u201ccross-genre training\u201d so that people are more well rounded. Because if people are told, \u201cHey, we expect you to be this, this, and this to get here,&#8221; but you don\u2019t train people to have this, this, and this, then what\u2019s the expectation?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have a lot of conversations about that and also about career coaching to make sure people feel like they have guidance and support within their careers. Also, just building a sense of community, we have an initiative called \u201cRandom Pairings\u201d literally once a month during lunchtime. We pair people together randomly just so they can meet new people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the initiative is a bit of everything.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>Can we talk about the \u201ccross-genre training\u201d? I am fascinated! Explain the core idea around that or the core problem.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>Of course, if you look at the backgrounds of most of the people that run frontline labels, so that would be label heads, most of them come from an A&amp;R background. A position in A&amp;R is very popular with those that reach out to me and want to talk. It makes sense in a lot of ways why you would come from an A&amp;R background and end up as a label president. However, I would argue that there are plenty of jobs within a major label that could also run a label.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes down to it, one of the issues is a lot of label presidents, as I\u2019m sure many people have noticed, are all white men. There are some exceptions, but very few and far between. A lot of those people have backgrounds in pop music, so they would say, \u201cOh well, this is the person who signed blank, an Ed Sheeran or a Bruno Mars, or whomever.\u201d Which is great. However, a lot of our black employees at many of the major labels tend to have a background in hip-hop, rap, R&amp;B, and other traditionally black music. So what do we run into when that person, a black employee, is at a Senior Vice President or Vice President level, and they want to move up to label president? All of a sudden, they\u2019re essentially told they don\u2019t have pop music experience. However, no one ever trained them in the pop music experience. No one ever gave them the opportunity to work in pop music, and no one told them they needed to work in pop music in order to become a label president. Suddenly when they want to become a label president, all of a sudden, they need pop music experience. Therefore, it seems that anyone that has aspirations to be a president or anyone that\u2019s working really in any genre of music should have exposure and experience in other genres so that when the time comes if they want to progress in a direction that is broader or more general, they have that experience. There are no barriers in their way to becoming that label president or becoming that label head because now they have various levels of experience in different genres.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you never give anyone an opportunity to work in a different genre, but then you say they must have that genre\u2026 then really it\u2019s the fault of the company and not the fault of the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>So, is there a lack of diversity of people coming into major labels?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>No.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>So the problem is that the diversity of the employees decreases as people move up?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>Very much so. There are plenty of studies out there. One of my favourites in the UK is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukmusic.org\/equality-diversity\/uk-music-diversity-report-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UK Music Diversity Report <\/a>done by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukmusic.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UK Music<\/a>. It shows that there is a proper amount of representation at the lower quartile across the music industry in the UK, but you see that drop off as you increase further up. So as you get to Director levels or Senior Direct levels of VP, SVPs, and up, that\u2019s where you start seeing less diversity from a race and ethnicity standpoint.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of times, you\u2019ll see companies that will say, \u201cOh yeah, we\u2019re going to hire more people from Historically Black Colleges to get more interns and entry-level people in. But we have plenty. That\u2019s not where the issue is. It&#8217;s more about promoting internally, the retention within the company, and also bringing in people at the level they deserve to be at when they come into the company, and that\u2019s where we see that drop off when we see people dropping out of the industry system to go elsewhere. That happens at the Mid to Senior levels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>Do you see that as something that the companies are aware of, or do you feel that even getting Senior management to understand that, that is where the problem is?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>It&#8217;s becoming more apparent, a louder problem that can\u2019t be ignored. I think the issue is that people don\u2019t know what to do about it, and to be honest, some people might be afraid of what the solutions might be. I think it sounds really good to say you\u2019re going to bring in more diverse interns, but no one thinks about what those companies are actually doing about their existing employees. There is an acknowledgement of the issue at this point but I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s figured out what the solution should be yet. That puts us at a bit of a standstill because I think that\u2019s the harder part, of course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>A lot of people say, \u201cHow do you broaden your network in general?\u201d So not necessarily just diversity, but like you talked about with Measure of Music, this idea that it wasn\u2019t necessarily on purpose, but your network is so broad and has different types of people. I think a lot of us work in smaller companies or live in certain bubbles, or we don\u2019t know certain people who do different jobs, back to even talking about looking for jobs and networking. How have you been so successful at broadening your network? Do you think about it consciously and actively, or is it just that you\u2019re naturally drawn to meeting different people?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine:<\/strong> I think it comes down to the fact that you have to want to. I\u2019m not saying you have to manufacture it, but you have to want to. No one likes being uncomfortable. But sometimes you have to be uncomfortable, to be in a space that you\u2019ve never been in before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think one thing that\u2019s challenging, something you\u2019re used to as a person of colour, especially if you\u2019re a person of colour that grew up in an area where you were not the majority, is that you are continuously the minority. I\u2019ve written some pieces about this, but essentially, when I grew up, I had to have a full understanding of black culture, and I also had to have a full understanding of not-black culture in order to survive through my day-to-day. The opposite doesn\u2019t exist for most people. The opposite doesn\u2019t exist for a lot of people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand a different culture, you have to actively step out of being comfortable. As I said, a label president can have a very long history working in pop music but never have been working in hip-hop or rap or R&amp;B and will be completely fine, but it doesn\u2019t work the other way around. You really have to be uncomfortable and put yourself in situations and places that you would not normally be. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any other way around it because if you go to the places you always go, you\u2019re going to meet the people you always meet. If you want to meet new people and have new experiences, you have to try new things. To talk to new people, you have to reach out to new people. If you\u2019re not willing to do that, you\u2019re always going to be with the people you always see, which is a very comfortable life, but it\u2019s not the way you\u2019re going to develop diverse opinions and voices around you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(at this point, questions from the audience start to roll in)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>Are you getting any DMs? Are there a couple that you want to take?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine<\/strong>: I think I can answer the first question that came in. Someone asked how I knew how to get into the music industry when I was really young? I\u2019m gonna date myself, but I think I had a Craigslist search for music, and anytime any job anywhere mentioned music, I would find it and reach out. On LinkedIn, you can search for music at all times, on Twitter, etc. I also go on Podcasts. There are plenty of podcasts that I listen to so I can understand the music industry. Do yourself a favour, and if you can, reach out to people on LinkedIn. Before you reach out to them, do a Google search and listen to some stuff they\u2019ve talked about. Before my last interview for a job, I reached out to the person who was previously in the role, and before I reached out to him, I listened to a podcast he was on. There are a lot of different ways to learn about the music industry that doesn\u2019t require you to just reach out to people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone else asked how I work with a label but also stay authentic? At the end of the day, it\u2019s your brand. Put your foot down as much as you want, say you\u2019re not going to do this, or I\u2019m going to do this. You don\u2019t have to, but you can justify your actions, and if you can, the labels will actually work with you. Sometimes, labels get a bad rep from people thinking, \u201cOh, they&#8217;re going to tell me what to do, and they\u2019re going to make me something I\u2019m not\u201d. People ask, \u201cOh do you use data to tell artists what type of music to make?\u201d and I\u2019m like, no artist is going to listen to me tell them that the perfect pop song is 115 beats per minute! Artists would scoff at me and go back to what they were doing. We don\u2019t dictate to artists what they should or should not do, and we don\u2019t tell them what they have to do. Instead, we just give them suggestions. If artists don\u2019t want to take the suggestion when you\u2019re working for a label, you have that choice, and if you don\u2019t have that choice, that\u2019s not the label you want to work with long-term. You should have that choice at all times.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone asked me about the key <a href=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/blog\/insights\/digital-dialogue-metadata-with-jessica-von-hertsenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">music data<\/a>. The Spotify <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.spotify.com\/documentation\/web-api\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">API<\/a> is fantastic. It&#8217;s free and easy to use and learn. It\u2019s how I learned how to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.python.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Python<\/a>, using the Spotify API. <a href=\"https:\/\/chartmetric.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chartmetric<\/a> has great data, it\u2019s more of a UI, but they have an API that you can also use. They have a UI for Chart Metric that I love. <a href=\"https:\/\/spotifycharts.com\/regional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spotify Charts<\/a> is readily available. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.last.fm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Last.FM<\/a> has some really cool data as well. There are tons and tons of places. Genius has a really cool API. Think about what type of data you want to play around with and go from there rather than the other way around because you could be looking all day, but there are so many different options when it comes to data.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audience question:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Why is pop music more desired?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yes, hip-hop is the most popular genre in the world. Pop music is much more desired because pop music has always been much more desired. That is much more of a situation of that\u2019s how it\u2019s always been, and that\u2019s why things go that way. But yes, hip-hop overall is the biggest genre in the world. But not necessarily the biggest genre in every country. That\u2019s another component to think about, pop music absolutely thrives in places like the Nordics, and hip-hop has a struggle. Especially hip-hip created by none white rappers. Something to keep in mind as well- the world is more than just the US and the UK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Audience question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How do you turn data into revenue?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know your audience, and <a href=\"https:\/\/byta.com\/blog\/insights\/digital-dialogue-how-artists-should-craft-ecommerce-strategies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get your audience to spend money on things<\/a>. That\u2019s basically the easiest way to turn data into revenue. If your audience likes to buy merch, make some merch. Or, if they like to go to shows, book some shows. Perhaps your audience is a streaming audience. You better put out a whole lot of music and hope they stream it a bunch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s really about knowing what your audience likes and doing that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>That\u2019s a very good way of explaining it. We could spend an hour talking about how to turn data into revenue, and basically, what you\u2019re saying is to listen to what people are telling you and react to what they\u2019re telling you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>That\u2019s how most of life works, to be honest, if you think about it. At an even higher level, most of how life works is to listen to what people are telling you and do that thing. People reach out to me and ask how to get a job doing this thing, and I always tell them to look for a job description that tells them what to do for that job and then do the thing that the job description says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>You make everything sound so easy, and I think that\u2019s important because ultimately, you can accomplish things if you just try it. If everyone thought things were too hard, they\u2019d never give it a go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any last questions before we go?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>Someone asked about communicating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, I always talk to everyone. Sometimes, when people are on LinkedIn, they\u2019ll reach out to every VP they can find at a company, and I say you could always just reach out to the Coordinator because they probably have way more time. Reach out to the Coordinators, the Assistants, and Marketing Managers, rather than the VPs and SVPs. My inbox is quite full-on LinkedIn, so I cannot imagine what those people in higher-level roles and what their inboxes look like.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A question about diversity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not know how the whole industry is planning on combating things. Someone mentioned that they are now hiring a lot more people in Diversity and Inclusion roles. I will say as a PSA that black people and queer people can do other jobs in the music industry besides being Head of Diversity. I do not think the music industry has gotten that memo yet, so hopefully, in a few more years, they will figure that out. Hopefully, there will be some good changes that happen with those hires that will involve those people being offered other roles besides just Head of Diversity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Marc: <\/strong>OK, Christine, I wanted to thank you so much for this conversation. It\u2019s been so nice! We\u2019ve done a couple of things together, but I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019ve been able to properly get to know you, so it\u2019s been really great to chat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christine: <\/strong>Thank you, Marc! Thanks for having me. Jamie, thanks for being amazing as always.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, everyone, for all of the questions. I\u2019m sure I missed many of them, and I\u2019m so sorry. Please feel free to reach out! 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