2021 INTERNATIONAL POWER PLAYERS

A music industry pioneer whose Mushroom Group would become a template for independent companies, Gudinski, with his exuberant personality, became the face of his country's music scene. Today, the group includes Mushroom Music Publishing the country's leading independent publisher; The Harbour Agency; labels I Oh You, Liberation and Bloodlines; and the concert promotion juggernaut Frontier Touring, which ranked as the third-largest promoter in the world in 201 according to Billboard Boxscore, with gross ticket sales of $245.1 million and over 2.7 million tickets sold to 440 reported shows. Archie Roach, the iconic Indigenous artist who was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2020, recounted Gudinski's tireless championing of First Nations artists, including Troy Cassar-Daley, Christine Anu and Dan Sultan, and for his support of Yothu Yindi and its breakthrough hit, "Treaty. Adam Granite EXECUTIVE VP MARKET DEVELOPMENT, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP Dickon Stainer PRESIDENT/CEO, GLOBAL CLASSICS AND JAZZ AND VERVE LABEL GROUP, UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP For the world's largest music company, Granite guides strategy for some of the globe's fastest-growing markets.