International organisations, such as the International Society of Music Education, ISME, make it possible to communicate worldwide in the world of music education. ISME also has inclusion, democracy and representation as goals. This paper examines how these goals are represented in the International Journal of Music Education, a journal closely connected to ISME. 20 issues of IJME between 2012 and 2016 were examined according to which countries, and which parts of the world, were represented. The study shows that an overwhelming majority of the articles were written by authors from institutions in countries where English is one of the official languages. The paper suggests different possible economic, cultural and traditional explanations for this result.