HYBE founder Bang Si-hyuk included on 2022 Billboard Power List

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Published: 27 Jan. 2022, 16:20

HYBE founder Bang Si-hyuk included on 2022 Billboard Power List

From left, Bang Si-hyuk, chairman of HYBE and co-CEOs of HYBE America Scooter Braun and Lenzo Yoon were included on the 2022 Billboard Power List. [HYBE]

Bang Si-hyuk, the founder of HYBE which represents BTS, was included on the 2022 Billboard Power List revealed on Thursday.

Bang, Scooter Braun and Lenzo Yoon, co-CEOs of HYBE America, ranked No. 18 out of the 25 selected by Billboard. Billboard annually selects and reveals a list of influential people in the music industry worldwide.

This is Bang’s second time to be included on the list after first being recognized in 2020.

Braun, who was the CEO of the media & entertainment company Ithaca Holdings until HYBE acquired and merged with it in April last year. Braun has been repeatedly included on the list since 2013. He was also selected as Variety’s Music Mogul of the Year by Variety magazine last year.

Yoon was included on the list of Billboard’s 2021 International Power Players and Billboard’s 2021 Indie Power Players.

Billboard wrote that HYBE America “will adapt the K-pop business model for the U.S. market while developing new talent, including HYBE and Universal Music Group’s first-of-its-kind global girl-group audition.”

“To have [our CEOs from HYBE America and Bang] to be included on the list simultaneously in merely half a year since we actively began to pursue global management shows that the borderline of the music industry is shifting and HYBE’s activities are being spotlighted globally,” HYBE said in a statement.

BY LEE JAE-LIM [lee.jaelim@joongang.co.kr]