The 2020 Billboard Impact List

" "Brooklyn lohnny" Descartes Founder/CEO, District 18 Entertainment Descartes, better known by his nickname, Brooklyn Johnny, began 2019 cheering on Cardi В as she became the nrst solo female artist to win a Grammy Award for best rap album, with herfu l-length debut, Invasion of Priv...

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Published in:Billboard 2020-01, Vol.132 (2), p.132-138
Main Authors: Benjamin, Jeff, Bliss, Karen, Budnick, Dean, Eggertsen, Chris, Fernandez, Suzette, Gaffney, Adrienne, Grant, Sarah, Kaufman, Gil, Lamarre, Carl, LeDonne, Rob, Mims, Taylor, Mitchell, Gail, Pham, Alex, Wilker, Deborah, Williams, Nick
Format: Article
Language:English
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Artists
Eilish, Billie
Executives
Festivals
Grammy awards
Music
Nominations
Publishing
Writers
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Summary:" "Brooklyn lohnny" Descartes Founder/CEO, District 18 Entertainment Descartes, better known by his nickname, Brooklyn Johnny, began 2019 cheering on Cardi В as she became the nrst solo female artist to win a Grammy Award for best rap album, with herfu l-length debut, Invasion of Privacy, on which Johnny was executive producer. Brandon Goodman Co-founder, Best Friends Music Danny Rukasin Co-founder, Best Friends Music Rukasin, 41, and Goodman, 35, are the management team behind Billie Eilish (as well as her brother and collabora- tor, Finneas O'Connell) and they're anticipating the night of the Grammy Awards, where their young superstar client has been nominated in six categories, including best new artist. Zeina Grenier Head of North America music publishing, Facebook Anjai Maihotra Director of international music publishing, Facebook "Everything we do around music at Facebook is rooted in community building and connections for artists, writers and fans," says Maihotra, 38, who works with Grenier, 40, on the company's relationships with publishers and related deals. Kenny MacPherson Co-founder/CE0, Big Deal Music Group MacPherson rose to his CEO role in June, halfway through a groundbreaking year in which Big Deal Music inked partne'ships with Diplo's Mad Decent Publishing and Ricky Reed's Nice Life Copyright Co. - the latter bringing writer-producer Tele (co-author of Lizzo's Hot 100 No. 1 "Truth Hurts") into the Big Deal fold.
ISSN:0006-2510