Which Country Music Executive Has the Most Influence? Vote Now

Taylor Mims
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Billboard‘s peer-voted Country Power Players’ Choice Award is back for 2024 and asking music industry members from all sectors to honor the executive they believe had the most impact across the Country music genre in the past year.

Voting is now open to all Billboard Pro members, both existing and new, with one vote per member per round.

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The Power Players’ Choice Award will run alongside Billboard’s annual Country Power Players list of the genre’s most influential executives, which will be announced in May.

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 and the R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players’ Choice Award in August and the Latin Power Players’ Choice Award in September. In 2024, the peer-voted award has expanded to also cover International Power Players and Top Music Lawyers.

The final round of voting for the Country Power Players’ Choice Award is now underway and will conclude on April 29 at 11:59 EST.

The finalists are:

  • Cameo Carlson, CEO at mTheory

  • Mike Curb, Chairman & Owner at Curb Records

  • Jon Loba, President at Frontline Recordings, BMG North America

  • Troy Tomlinson, Chairman and CEO at Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville

  • Jay Williams, Co-Head of Nashville Office at WME

Vote now and if you are not yet a member of Billboard Pro, join here.

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