The 50 Most Powerful Female Executives in the Music Industry

Billboard Magazine recently released their Women in Music issue. With it they compiled the 50 most powerful female executives in the music industry. If you are wondering how such a list is put together, here is what they say 

Methodology: Executives were chosen based on business impact, audience, market share and chart and/or tour ­performance of their artists or clients in the past year, tracked by Nielsen Music and Billboard Boxscore.

You can read the story here. 

The only catch is that with the ever changing landscape in music where barcode scans from sales and captured digital stream data mean less and less (how Nielsen Music tracks an artists sales), there is an entirely different group of women making things happen in music outside of the top 40 / Pop culture world. The independent music community is larger than ever so while this is still an inspiring list of ladies, keep in mind it only tells a portion of the whole story.