This inaugural list of Hypebot's New Music Industry Executives To Watch In 2010 covers a wide variety of movers, shakers and trend setters. Many have either recently launched potentially game changing companies or products or are scheduled to in the coming months. For all of them, 2010 will be a year that reveals if the bets they are placing now are winners both for themselves and for the broader music industry. In no particular order:
- Rio Caraeff, Vevo
- Bill Nguyen, Lala/Apple
- Ian Rogers, TopSpin Media
- Daniel Ek, Spotify
- Owen Van Natta and Courtney Holt, MySpace
- Ge Wang, Smule
- Alexander Ljung, SoundCloud
- Emily White, Whitesmith, CASH Music
- David Hyman, MOG
- Michael Rapino, Live Nation
- Bart Decrem, Tapulous
- Denzyl Feigelson, AWAL
- Peter Gelb, Metropolitan Opera
- Adam Driscoll, Brian Message and Terry McBride, Polyphonic
- Steve Purdham, We7
- Rob Stone and Jon Cohen, Cornerstone
