Country music has an equal play issue. You know it, I know it, Kacey Musgraves knows it.

The industry’s glaring gender gap was recently thrust under the microscope when Michigan radio station 98 FM KCQ tweeted a now-deleted statement, claiming it “cannot play two females back to back”, much to the outrage of several country music singers, and women everywhere.

Musgraves retweeted the original statement, writing: “Smells like white male bullshit and why LONG ago I decided they cannot stop me.” In a later tweet, the Grammy Award-winning artist added: “And yet, they can play 18 dudes who sound exactly the same back to back. Makes total sense.”

Country music has an equal play issue, which is why this announcement is so important