Which Music Executive Has the Most Influence? Vote Now (Finals)

4 November, 2024

Billboard’s peer-voted Power 100 Players’ Choice Award is back for 2025 and asking music industry members from all sectors to honor the executive they believe had the most impact across the music industry in the past year. 

Voting is open to all Billboard Pro members, both existing and new, with one vote per member per round. Individuals who previously won the Power 100 Players’ Choice Award will not be eligible to win again. 

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The finalists are:

  • Lucian Grainge, Chairman & CEO at Universal Music Group
  • Golnar Khosrowshahi, Founder & CEO at Reservoir
  • Walter Kolm, CEO and President at WK Entertainment
  • Sean Saadeh, EVP of Entertainment at Prudential Center
  • Kirk Sommer, Global Co-Head of Contemporary Music and Touring at WME

The Power 100 Players’ Choice Award will run alongside Billboard’s annual Power 100 ranking of the music industry’s most influential executives in the music industry, which will be revealed in January. 

Billboard launched its first Players’ Choice Award with the Power 100 list in January 2023, followed by the first Country Power Players’ Choice Award that concluded in June of that year; the inaugural R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players’ Choice Award in August; and the first Latin Power Players’ Choice Award in September. In 2024, the peer-voted award expanded to also cover International Power Players and Top Music Lawyers. Previous Power 100 Players’ Choice award winners include Universal Music Publishing Group’s Jody Gerson and S10 Entertainment’s Brandon Silverstein. 

The final round of voting is now live to determine the winner from the final five nominees. Voting will conclude on Friday, Dec. 13, at 11:59 p.m. ET. 

If you are not yet a member of Billboard Pro, you can join here. 

Taylor Mims

Billboard