The latest lineup poster is retrieved from an official source (festival website, festival socials). All musical acts are copied from the poster.

Acts that may be excluded from the data include: non-musical acts (comedians, visual artists), sets with no publicly announced pre-festival roster (superjams, showcases), large ensembles (orchestras), artists that are completely anonymous

Artists that are playing under the same moniker/project more than once during a festival will only be counted once.

DJs playing B2B sets or collaborations are separated into the two artists individually unless there is music released by and social accounts specifically for the collaboration. They then may be counted as a group.

Each act is researched to determine the individuals that are official, permanent members of the group. The number of official musicians is recorded in a spreadsheet.

"Official" members of a group are considered those that are referred to when you use the name listed on the poster. Typically, it is the musicians who appear in official bios, promo photos, official videos, interviews, etc. Official members do NOT include touring musicians who are hired solely to play the artist's music live.

Sources used to determine official members include official websites, official social media accounts, label or agency websites, interviews, etc.

Members of a group who are not specifically musicians are not included (art directors, graphic designers, dancers, etc.)

Each individual determined to be an official member of a group is sorted into one of three groups: women, nonbinary, men. The count of each category is recorded in the spreadsheet.
(ex. FLO 3/0/0 = 3 women / 0 nonbinary / 0 men)

Individuals are sorted by the most accurate representation of their publicly shared identity. Typically, this is determined using the individual's pronouns. Pronouns are found using social media profiles, official bios, interviews, or credible, recent written sources. Assumptions are one of our worst enemies and considerable efforts are made to never get to the point of assuming any musicians gender identity, including contacting an artist's team or the artist themselves if necessary.

We acknowledge that pronouns and gender are not a perfect 1:1 match, but this approach relies on publicly available information and represents our best effort to provide accurate and meaningful data. We also acknowledge that gender can not be broken down into three neat categories, but we find the three categories to provide the most useful data for the current moment in time.

Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Nonbinary folks are nonbinary regardless of assignment at birth.

Individuals included in the nonbinary group may include those who use genderqueer, agender, gender fluid, and other identities.

Sorting using pronouns is done as listed below:

she/her/hers are categorized as "woman"
they/them/theirs are categorized as "nonbinary"
he/him/his are categorized as "man"
it/its, xe/xir, any other pronouns or neopronouns are categorized as "nonbinary"

she/they, they/she, he/they, they/he, will typically result in further searching for written or spoken references from the individual or bandmates, but if no further info can be found:

she/they are categorized as "woman"
he/they are categorized as "man"
they/she are categorized as "nonbinary"
they/he are categorized as "nonbinary"

Total count of individual musicians and individual musicians in each gender category are calculated for the festival. Percentages are calculated for the three categories by using the number of official individual musicians in each category and total number of official individual musicians on the festival lineup.

5. The official festival poster is edited digitally, and all acts that include only men are removed. Any act that features at least one nonbinary musician or at least one woman musician will remain on the poster.