Nominations Open for Billboard Canada Power Players 2025
The country’s most influential music industry celebration is moving to Toronto’s NXNE festival, which takes place June 11-15. The Billboard Canada Power Players submissions form is open now.
Billboard Canada Power Players is returning in 2025, and it’s moving to Toronto’s NXNE music festival.
The authoritative ranking of the music business’s most powerful executives – an official extension of Billboard’s Power 100 list – expanded to Canada in 2024. The event brought a who’s-who of industry leaders to a packed celebration at the city’s tallest building, the CN Tower.
This year, the event will grow even bigger at its new home at NXNE. The beloved Canadian music festival is celebrating its 30th anniversary amidst the debut of a strategic partnership with Billboard Canada, and Power Players will kick it off by bringing together the industry’s most influential people.
Nominations officially open today (Feb. 19) and will close on March 7, 2025.
Find the submissions form here. The French version of the submissions form is here.
“We’re thrilled to bring Power Players to the country’s most vibrant music conference and festival,” says Mo Ghoneim, president of Billboard Canada. “Power Players is a crucial spotlight of the executives leading the charge in Canada on a global scale, and we can’t wait to bring it to new heights in 2025.”
Canada is home to some of the most impactful people in music, both at home and internationally. In 2024, Billboard Canada celebrated Arthur Fogel, Live Nation’s CEO of global touring, at No. 1. The Canadian industry icon who shaped the modern global touring market attended the event and spoke about the impact Canada’s live music scene had on his career.
The event spotlighted the country’s most powerful executives, and it was a particularly good year for women in high positions, including Warner Music Canada’s Kristen Burke (who ranked No. 1 in the Labels category), FACTOR’s Meg Symsyk, SOCAN’s Jennifer Brown and more.
As Canada’s market for stadium concerts and festivals continues to expand and CanCon continues to be debated, there are many unpredictable factors and stories that could play a role in this year’s Power Players list.
Billboard Canada Power Players celebrates people across the industry, including record labels, publishing, legal, streaming & radio, creative media and more. The extremely competitive honour reflects market share, industry impact, achievements and other metrics.
The Power Players list is peer-nominated and selected by the Billboard Canada team. Interested parties can fill in the nominations form here.
This is the first of a series of exciting announcements for NXNE and Billboard Canada programming in 2025 that will come over the next several weeks. To stay updated and receive notifications, subscribe to the Billboard Canada FYI newsletter at ca.billboard.com (top right corner).
For any queries, please contact powerplayers@ca.billboard.com
This announcement is also available in French here.
Billboard Canada Power Players is presented with support by industry partner Tixr.
