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“beyond proud and humbled” to have

booked Ed Sheeran — whom CAA rep-

resents outside the United States and

Canada — on what “was crowned the

most-attended and highest-grossing

tour of all time.”

Bobby Rosenbloum

Vice chairman of global entertainment

and media practice, Greenberg Traurig

Rosenbloum, 50, leads a team of 85

entertainment and media attorneys

that “has worked on deals that are

worth over $2.5 billion for the music

industry this year, across a variety of

companies over the past 18 months,”

he says, citing clients including the

Recording Academy, Dick Clark

Productions, iHeartRadio, Facebook,

Amazon, Spotify, Twitch, TikTok,

Condé Nast and Tesla. While other

firms might wrestle over who gets

what slice of the pie, “our perspective

is a little different,” he says. “We ask,

‘How do we grow the pie?’ ”

Corey Sheridan

Head of music partnerships and

operations, North America; TikTok

After arriving at TikTok last April,

Sheridan, 40, increased the number of

artists who engage with the fast-grow-

ing video app from a few to 750 by

year’s end. “We’re seeing established

artists who use the platform day in and

day out, like The Chainsmokers, Alicia

Keys, Mariah Carey, Post Malone and

Camila Cabello,” says Sheridan. “We

also have up-and-coming artists who

have had success on TikTok, like Lizzo,

Lil Nas X, Luh Kel, Stunna Girl and

Blanco Brown. Ultimately, we are help-

ing artists with their careers.”

Ebonie Smith

Senior audio engineer/producer,

Atlantic Records; founder/president,

Gender Amplified

With the support of Atlantic Records,

Smith, 34, an in-house engineer/

producer at the label, has launched

Gender Amplified, a nonprofit group

that aims to celebrate women in music

production, raise their visibility and

nurture the next generation of female

producers. She spearheaded the

recording camp Ctrl Room Series in

collaboration with New York Univer-

sity’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded

Music, with “generous support” from

Atlantic, says Smith. “I’m thankful to

work for a company that values gender

parity in recording studios and empow-

ers me to lead by example each day.”

Ben Vaughn

President/CEO,

Warner Chappell Music Nashville

Less than a year after Vaughn, 44,

added CEO to his title, Warner Chap-

pell Music earned country music pub-

lisher of the year honors from ASCAP,

BMI and SESAC during Country Music

Week in November. As the company

won the Nashville music publishing in-

dustry’s unofficial triple crown, Warner

Chappell writers collected a landmark

56 honors from the three PROs. Nicolle

Galyon, who co-authored Dan + Shay’s

“Tequila,” took home BMI’s songwriter

of the year award, while the Brothers

Osborne received ASCAP’s Vanguard

Award. Says Vaughn of his com-

pany’s success: “It’s a truly remarkable

achievement that took a committed

team. There’s no better feeling than

jumping in the truck and blasting a

song from a Warner Chappell Music

writer that they put their heart into.”

Geof Wills

President, Live Nation Comedy

With his team of 13, Wills, 56, booked

1,341 live comedy shows for some 75

performers in 2019, up from 1,066 in

2018, evidence of the growth of the

genre on the road. “We always call it

the stepchild of the music industry,

but comedy is a much more mature

business than it was five years ago,”

says the veteran agent, who began

his career with Bill Graham Presents.

During 2019, he booked headliners

including Chelsea Handler, Dave

Chappelle, Ali Wong and Hasan Min-

haj, but he also handles shows for TV,

film and digital personalities, includ-

ing YouTube political satirist Randy

Rainbow, and the Up Close & Personal

tour, a string of live appearances from

the cast of Schitt’s Creek. “Typically

during Republican presidencies,

we’ve been busier,” says Wills about

the recent market boom. “People

need some relief, I guess.”

Jaime Zeluck Hindlin

Founder/owner, Nonstop Management

With prior A&R experience at Prescrip-

tion Songs and Sony/ATV Music Pub-

lishing, Zeluck Hindlin, 34, launched

Nonstop Management in 2018 and has

since lived up to her company’s name

on behalf of her songwriter-producer

clients. Michael Pollack and JKash

co-wrote “Memories” for Maroon 5;

the song is the first top five hit on the

Hot 100 for both Pollack and Nonstop.

Writers Jake Torrey and Sam Farrar (of

Maroon 5) co-wrote “Don’t Give Up On

Me,” recorded by Andy Grammar and

featured in the film Five Feet Apart.

“We’ve been involved in quite a few

songs that have shed light on important

messages to help others this past year,”

adds Zeluck Hindlin. Proceeds from

Lauv’s “Sad Forever,” co-written by Tor-

rey, will go to mental health fundrais-

ing, while James Arthur’s “Quite Miss

Home,” co-written by Pollack, benefits

City of Hope in memory of producer-

songwriter busbee.

CONTRIBUTORS

Jeff Benjamin, Karen Bliss, Dean Budnick,

Chris Eggertsen, Suzette Fernandez,

Adrienne Gaffney, Sarah Grant, Gil Kaufman,

Carl Lamarre, Rob LeDonne, Taylor Mims,

Gail Mitchell, Alex Pham, Deborah Wilker,

Nick Williams

METHODOLOGY

Billboard editors weighed a variety of factors in determining the 2020

Billboard Impact List, including but not limited to nominations by

peers, colleagues and superiors and impact on consumer behavior as

measured by chart, sales and streaming performance, social media

impressions and radio/TV audiences reached, using data available

as of Dec. 2, 2019. (Nielsen Music/MRC Data information in profiles

is updated as of Jan. 9, 2020.) Honorees recognized in the 2019 New

Power Generation feature (the predecessor to this list) were not

eligible. Year-end Billboard charts for 2019, career trajectory and

industry impact were also considered, as were financial results

when available. Where required, U.S. record-label market share was

consulted using Nielsen Music’s current market share for albums plus

track-equivalent and streaming-equivalent album-consumption units

and Billboard’s quarterly top 10 publisher rankings. Unless otherwise

noted, Billboard Boxscore and Nielsen Music are the sources for tour

grosses and sales/streaming data, respectively. Nielsen is also the

source for radio audience metrics. Unless otherwise noted, album

streaming figures cited represent collective U.S. on-demand audio

totals for an album’s tracks, and song/artist streaming figures

represent U.S. on-demand audio and video totals.

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and Sheeran in

London in 2018.

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