Blender.com recently ran a feature highlighting whom they consider to be the Most Influential People in Online Music.
That list, in order from 25 to 1, looks like this:
25. Pete Wentz, Fallout Boy
24. Bob Lefsetz, The Lefsetz Letter
23. Eric Garland, Big Champagne Research Firm
22. Brett Woitunski, Purevolume
21. Matthew Perpetua, Fluxblog
20. David Pakman, eMusic
19. Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin, BitTorrent
18. Jason Tate, AbsolutePunk.net
17. “Oinkylicious” Alan, Oink’s Pink Palace (invite-only file-sharing site)
16. Vadim Mamotin, All of Mp3
15. Tim Quirk, Rhapsody
14. Anthony Volodkin, The Hype Machine
13. Perez Hilton, Perezhilton.com
12. Mitch Bainwol, RIAA
11. Scott Lapatine, Stereogum
10. Coran Capshaw, Music Today
9. Christian Schmid, Rapidshare
8. Greg Bildson, Limewire
7. Martin Stiksel and Felix Miller, Last.fm
6. Ian Rogers, Yahoo! Music
5. Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork
4. Doug Morris, Universal Music Group
3. Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, YouTube
2. Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, Myspace
1. Steve Jobs, Apple
Blender does a pretty good job giving a description of each person's contribution to online music and even throws in some interesting tidbits like the fact that Steven Chen of YouTube is a huge Arcade Fire fan or that labels often use BitTorrent to distribute videos for free.
What are your thoughts, rants, additions for the list? Let us know by dropping a line in the comments.
Read more about the Powergeek 25 at Blender.com.