Trisha Yearwood: ‘Country radio is ripe for a female revolution’

Country music is facing a major revolution as women demand to hear more females on the radio, according to Trisha Yearwood.
Garth Brooks’ wife claims a day of reckoning is coming when radio station executives will be forced to make major changes in who they play.
With just three women appearing in the current top 25 on Billboard’s Hot Country song chart, Trisha tells Build women aren’t getting enough love on country radio stations.
“I want to go, ‘Who says that’s the way it is?’ Like, you don’t play two female artists back to back and you make sure you play four guys before you play a girl? Like, whose rules are those?
“I think they are about to get a rude awakening, because women are rising up. We’re going to start marching to your radio station, and you’re going to be afraid not to play our records, I think. I would do that march: ‘There are 20 angry women in the parking lot. Let’s play some Trisha Yearwood!’ I feel like it could happen!”
And she is urging anyone who agrees with her to stand up.
“Everybody says, ‘This is what we want’, but you gotta really do it!”
Her comments come a week after Kacey Musgraves picked up four top honours at the Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Country Album for Golden Hour.
“Her album was one that she purely made because she’s saying, ‘I’m an artist. This is what I want to say’.” Yearwood gushed. “I don’t think she was concerned about all the things that come up after you make the record. We have to be. We’re marketing. We want to sell records, but if you’re going to call yourself an artist, your first love, your first priority has to be making sure you take care of that music and do what you feel in your heart and you hope you’re going to connect with somebody out there.
“I think that’s what Kacey did with the record, and I think that’s why she’s being recognised. People can tell when you follow your heart.”