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.
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 second round of voting is now open to narrow down the top 15 nominees into the final five top executives and will run through April 21.
The third round of voting will begin April 22, to select the winner from that list. Voting concludes April 28 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
The semifinalists are:
- Tatum Allsep, Founder & CEO at Music Health Alliance
- Aaron Bay-Schuck, CEO at Warner Records
- Cameo Carlson, CEO at mTheory
- Mike Curb, Chairman & Owner at Curb Records
- Martha Earls, Owner & Manager at Neon Coast
- Michael Harris, COO & EVP at Universal Music Group Nashville
- Clint Higham, President at Morris Higham Management
- Chris Kappy, Owner at Make Wake Artists
- Jon Loba, President of BMG Nashville
- Louis Messina, President at Messina Touring Group/Promoter at AEG
- Austin Neal, Founder & Co-Head at The Neal Agency
- John Ozier, EVP of Creative at Reservoir
- Troy Tomlinson, Chairman and CEO at Universal Music Publishing Group Nashville
- Damian Whiteside, CEO at Academy of Country Music
- Jay Williams, Co-Head of Nashville Office at WME
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