PROMOTION UNDER They’re young, innovative and creative. Billboard will publish the annual 40 Under 40 celebrating the issue, next- gen leaders of the I0 music industry. This issue will reach the music industry’s most influential and powerful—from the young innovators who are making waves to the seasoned veterans POWER PLAYERS who helped pave the way. They’re young, they’re innovative, they’re disruptive. From monetizing bite-sized streams to LIVE selling out massive REBECA LEON , 39 stadiums, these are the OMAR AL-JOULANI VP LATIN TALENT, AEG himself with signees Imagine Dragons, GOLDENVOICE; MANAGER whose debut album, Night Visions, has SENIOR VP NORTH AMERICAN logged 105 weeks on the Billboard 200 progressive leaders , 36 (JUANES, J BALVIN) and has sold 2.3 million copies and TOURING, LIVE NATION another 14.4 million tracks. The band built reshaping the music industry COVER DATE: a profile with a series of EPs, a strategy Alex Da Kid is now pursuing with X Though he’s a life-long rock fan (a 1998 Rebeca Leon works Ambassadors, whose track with Jamie N Foo Fighters/Green Day show in Ottawa, Commons, “Jungle,” was featured in a big and dreams big: Beats World Cup ad and in the season- Ontario, made him want to get into the “I want to be a two trailer for Orange Is the New Black. business) Omar Al-joulani has engineered “Working at a shoe store in mogul,” she says. By London.” huge EDM and hip-hop milestones like 10/3 which she means not ”Sex.” Swedish House Mafia’s 2013 farewell run just overseeing (regarded as the most successful EDM ON SALE DATE: AEG’s Latin tours — DONNA GRYN, 31 tour in history) and Jay Z and Beyoncé’s On SENIOR DIRECTOR OF upcoming bill of Enriqueincluding Iglesias, the Pitbull MARKETING, REPUBLIC RECORDS the Run stadium swing (which generated and J Balvin (whom she co-manages with a $96.6 million North American gross, Tapping focus Fabio Acosta) — and launching a new groups to better according to Billboard Boxscore). He’s also 64 BILLBOARD | SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 Latin alternative festival in October in Los tailor her marketing guiding Eminem and Rihanna’s Monster KATE DENTON, 35 Smith’s upcoming album, increasing click-throughs campaigns for Ariana Angeles, but producing movies “that mean Grande, Colbie 9/25 SENIOR VP, SEVENTEEN FIFTY outing and the Made in America festival. , CAPITOL by 600 percent. (She also bought search terms something.” She also dreams of “spending MUSIC GROUP so that inquiries like “Grey’s Anatomy what’s that Caillat and Jessie J To pay it back, he’s creating the next song” led to an album page.) “One thing I’ve found has led Donna Gryn AD CLOSE: three months of the year taking calls from to create powerful When Capitol Music Group chief Steve Barnett is that folks in the music industry don’t necessarily From left: Jeffrey Azoff, generation of rock superstars: Al-joulani direct-to-fan initiatives. For Grande, that my boat in the Caribbean.” hired Kate Denton away from PepsiCo in August speak brand,” she says. “If you approach music like a Wolowitz, Weeden, Al-joulani was behind Imagine Dragons’ clubs-to- 2013, he wanted to bring her consumer marketing consumer good, the marketing potential is limitless.” meant giving fans who purchased her new and Smith were photographed THE ALBUM THAT MADE ME WANT TO expertise to the music business. Running CMG’s album, My Everything, from the singer’s arena jump on their debut album. “Babysitting my three younger BE IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS new in-house advertising init direct-to-consumer page an exclusive by Christopher Patey on iative Seventeen sisters. I come from a huge family and have 125 first Sept. 4 at House of Blues in MY FIRST JOB Fifty (named for the Capitol tower’s historic Vine and second cousins, on just one side of the family. stream of a concert at Los Angeles’ 9/17 Synchronicity Street address), Denton says she promotes “artists iHeartRadio Theatre. “The key was it “The Agency Group “The Police, Management skills.” Los Angeles. Canada, assistant to Colin Lewis.” . I was 8 years old. My wasn’t just singles,” says Gryn. “She parents [wouldn’t] let me go to their show. as brands,” an approach that is still “uncharted “How to Win basically taped the entire album.” The IF I WEREN’T IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS, I territory.” One big win: When Capitol placed a Sam Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.” I finally got to go, to their reunion tour.” result was Grande’s second No. 1 album Smith track on Grey’s Anatomy, she teamed with “I’d have a WOULD BE debut in less than 12 months. To this, Gryn IF I WEREN’T IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS MATERIALS DUE: Shazam to connect users to a purchase link for catering company. I love to cook.” “In politics.” adds partnerships like Austin Mahone’s always wanted to be a writer for $8.7 million Aquafina deal that result in a Guide to the Galaxy is the best reflection new president of A&R. healthy boost for both label and artist. Night Live “I of — and contributor to — my personality.” “No. 2 assistant to the head “Working as a promotions . It’s a show that inspiredSaturday me.” of international operations at Interscope assistant at Roc-a -Fella during its prime, Geffen A&M.” while I was still in college.” AARON BAY-SCHUCK,33 “I’d “I’m sort of ob- PRESIDENT A&R, INTERSCOPE be a food critic who always wished he was sessed with Pio Pio in Hell’s Kitchen.” SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 | WWW.BILLBOARD.COM RECORDS in the music business.” 9/18 Aaron Bay-Schuck is JOHN JANICK, 36 best-known for his ALEX DA KID, 33 PRESIDENT/CEO, INTERSCOPE 65 2009 signing of CEO, KIDINAKORNER RECORDS GEFFEN A&M Bruno Mars to AND PUBLISHING Atlantic. “He was When John Janick struggling to make it After Alex Da Kid was named as an artist; I was produced the president/CEO of struggling to define 6.3 million-selling Interscope Geffen myself as an A&R person,“ says Bay- 2010 hit “Love the A&M in May, he Schuck. But the 38.9 million tracks that Way You Lie” for Editorial content subject to change. succeeded label co- Mars has sold — along with 2.3 million Eminem, Jimmy founder Jimmy copies of Unorthodox Jukebox — have Iovine offered him a 2.3 Iovine. If taking over defined them both. Mars was Billboard’s label deal. Kidina- MILLION for a legend is heavy pressure, Janick isn’t 2013 Artist of the Year, and earlier this korner Records and Publishing launched letting it show. In the past year, he se- month Bay-Schuck was named Interscope’s in 2011, and Alex Da Kid quickly proved cured 25 Grammy nominations; billboard CONTACT: AKI KANEKO | 323.525.2299 JOE MAIMONE | 212.493.4427 LEE ANN PHOTOGLO | 615.376.7931 | |[email protected] [email protected] | [email protected].