What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.
Back in January, Billboard Magazine compiled and published what they called The 2013 Power 100; their list of who they’d determined to be the 100 most powerful people (or, in a handful of instances, groupings of people) in the music industry.
In recent years, the nature of the business, and the sorts of folks who hold power within it have changed quite a lot. It’s an interesting list, with a few surprises, and can be seen in full here.
What does this have to do with PeekYou and PeekScores? Well, if you’ve not already guessed we’ll tell you. We’ve decided to take the top 50 entries from Billboard’s 2013 Power 100 and analyze and compare not their various powers within the music industry, but instead their assorted impacts and presences here in our beloved World Wide Web. Simply, using the PeekScore scale we’re taking a look at these music moguls’ digital footprints (an explanation of which can be found above, or more in-depth by clicking through here).
The folks topping our list should surprise no one, as they’re two legitimate television stars in addition to their monumental behind the scenes juice. But even once we descend the list and begin to observe cyber-impacts more approaching those of mere mortals, the PeekScores remain on the rather healthy side. Some of these folks have a social media presence, and some are somewhat famous outside of the biz, but mostly the scores are as robust as they are due to the routine coverage in the music and finance trades that people in their positions of influence tend to receive.
Quick disclaimer: While we’re only looking at the top 50 slots from Billboard’s list today, our list is a bit longer due to Billboard including the occasional pair and/or trio of folks on theirs.
| Rank | Picture | Name | Title – Company | PeekScore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
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Simon Cowell | Founder – Syco Entertainment | 9.27 / 10.00 |
| 2 |
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L.A. Reid | Chairman/CEO – Epic Records | 8.90 / 10.00 |
| 3 |
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Jimmy Iovine | Chairman – Interscope Geffen A&M Records | 8.12 / 10.00 |
| 4 |
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Clive Davis | Chief Creative Officer – Sony Music Entertainment | 8.07 / 10.00 |
| 5 |
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Scooter Braun | CEO – SB Projects | 7.88 / 10.00 |
| 6 |
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Dr. Luke | Musician, Record Producer, Songwriter | 7.51 / 10.00 |
| 7 |
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Barry Weiss | Chairman/CEO – Universal Republic & Island Def Jam | 7.50 / 10.00 |
| 8 |
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Jay Brown | Co-Founder/President – Roc Nation | 7.44 / 10.00 |
| 9 |
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Daniel Ek | CEO – Spotify | 7.34 / 10.00 |
| 10 |
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John Hogan | President/CEO – Clear Channel Media and Entertainment | 7.30 / 10.00 |
| 11 |
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Eddy Cue | Senior VP of Internet Software and Services – Apple | 7.29 / 10.00 |
| 12 |
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Bryan “Birdman” Williams | Co-Founder/Co-CEO – Cash Money Records | 7.28 / 10.00 |
| 13 |
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Scott Borchetta | CEO – Big Machine Records | 7.27 / 10.00 |
| 14 |
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Ronald “Slim” Williams | Co-Founder/Co-CEO – Cash Money Records | 7.24 / 10.00 |
| 15 |
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Charlie Jones | Co-Founder – C3 Presents | 7.22 / 10.00 |
| 16 |
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Randy Phillips | President/CEO – AEG Live | 7.21 / 10.00 |
| 17 |
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Stephen Cooper | CEO – Warner Music Group | 7.20 / 10.00 |
| 18 |
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Len Blavatnik | Owner – Warner Music Group | 7.19 / 10.00 |
| 19 |
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Rio Caraeff | CEO – VEVO | 7.19 / 10.00 |
| 20 |
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Frank Cooper | Chief Marketing Officer of Global Consumer Engagement – PepsiCo | 7.18 / 10.00 |
| 21 |
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Charles Attal | Co-Founder – C3 Presents | 7.17 / 10.00 |
| 22 |
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Charlie Walker | Co-Founder – C3 Presents | 7.16 / 10.00 |
| 23 |
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Steve Barnett | CEO – Capitol Music Group | 7.15 / 10.00 |
| 24 |
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Dan Mason | President/CEO – CBS Radio | 7.14 / 10.00 |
| 25 |
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Monte Lipman | President/CEO – Universal Republic Records | 7.12 / 10.00 |
| 26 |
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Robert Kyncl | Global Head of Content – YouTube | 7.11 / 10.00 |
| 27 |
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Rob Light | Managing Partner/Head of Music – Creative Artists Agency | 7.10 / 10.00 |
| 28 |
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Joe Belliotti | Director of Global Entertainment Marketing – The Coca-Cola Company | 7.10 / 10.00 |
| 29 |
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Avery Lipman | Co-President – Universal Republic Records | 7.09 / 10.00 |
| 30 |
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Tom Poleman | President, National Programming Platforms – Clear Channel Radio | 7.09 / 10.00 |
| 31 |
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Rob Stringer | Chairman/CEO – Columbia Records | 7.08 / 10.00 |
| 32 |
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Bob Pittman | CEO – Clear Channel Media | 7.07 / 10.00 |
| 33 |
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Lucian Grainge | Chairman/CEO – Universal Music Group | 7.08 / 10.00 |
| 34 |
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Michael Rapino | CEO – Live Nation Entertainment | 7.07 / 10.00 |
| 35 |
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Tim Leiweke | President/CEO – Anschutz Entertainment Group | 7.07 / 10.00 |
| 36 |
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Arthur Fogel | Chairman of Global Touring – Live Nation Entertainment | 7.06 / 10.00 |
| 37 |
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Emmanuel Seuge | Head of Global Sports and Entertainment Marketing – Coca-Cola | 7.06 / 10.00 |
| 38 |
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Joel Katz | Founding Shareholder – Greenberg Traurig | 7.06 / 10.00 |
| 39 |
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Scott Sperling | Co-President – Thomas H. Lee Partners | 7.06 / 10.00 |
| 40 |
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Doug Morris | CEO – Sony Music Entertainment | 7.05 / 10.00 |
| 41 |
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Marc Geiger | Head of Music – William Morris Agency | 7.05 / 10.00 |
| 42 |
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Julie Greenwald | Chairman/COO – Atlantic Records | 7.05 / 10.00 |
| 43 |
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Peter Edge | CEO – RCA Records | 7.05 / 10.00 |
| 44 |
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Martin Bandier | Chairman/CEO – Sony/ATV Music Publishing | 7.04 / 10.00 |
| 45 |
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Lew Dickey | CEO – Cumulus Media | 7.04 / 10.00 |
| 46 |
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Hartwig Masuch | CEO – BMG Rights Management | 7.04 / 10.00 |
| 47 |
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Zach Horowitz | President/COO – Universal Music Group | 7.03 / 10.00 |
| 48 |
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Craig Kallman | Chairman/CEO – Atlantic Records | 7.02 / 10.00 |
| 49 |
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Bob Roux | Co-President – Live Nation Entertainment | 7.02 / 10.00 |
| 50 |
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John Janick | President/COO – Interscope Records | 7.02 / 10.00 |
| 51 |
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Coran Capshaw | Founder Partner – Red Light Management | 7.01 / 10.00 |
| 52 |
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Robert Kondrk | Senior Director – Apple | 7.01 / 10.00 |
| 53 |
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Cameron Strang | Chairman/CEO — Warner/Chappell Music | 7.01 / 10.00 |
| 54 |
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Mike Dungan | CEO – Universal Music Group Nashville | 7.00 / 10.00 |
| 55 |
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Steve Bartels | President – Island Records | 6.99 / 10.00 |
| 56 |
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Tom Corson | President/COO – RCA Records | 6.99 / 10.00 |
| 57 |
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Mark Campana | Co-President – Live Nation Entertainment | 6.98 / 10.00 |
| 58 |
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Nathan Hubbard | CEO – Ticketmaster | 6.97 / 10.00 |
| 59 |
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Chip Hooper | Head of Music Division – Paradigm Talent Agency | 6.96 / 10.00 |