Emily Stephenson by Lecrae and Downtown Music Publishing
The Music Business Association (Music Biz) honored the Bizzy Award winners of this year during the fourth annual Bizzy Awards dinner last night (May 14) during the Music Biz 2025 conference at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly.
The 2025 bizzy awards dinner was sponsored by Warner Music Group, organized by the artist & Reach Records Founder, Lecraeand featured performance by Tayla byx (Warner Chappell Music) & Yami Safdie (Warner Music Latina).
President based in Nashville of Downtown Music Publishing, Emily Stephensonreceived the #nextGen_Now One to Watch Prize, while seeing Data Management on Concord Rights, Miracle of Elyshawon the Metadata Maestro Prize. Grimey’s won the Bizzy Frontline Innovator Award, and the Lauded Equal Access program was honored by the change agent.
This year marks the fourth time that the nominations for the association’s reward program were on the crowd, allowing the world of world music to recognize their companies and their peers which make a difference in the improvement of the global industry.
2025 BIZZY PRIZE laureates:
Leading light price: Colleen Theis, President and COO, The Orchard
Presidential prize for exceptional executive success: Cindy Charles, Twitch – posthumous honor accepted by Charles’s husband
Marketing Superstar Prize: MF Doom – MM..Food (20 years old birthday), entertainment of rhymesayers
MAESTRO OF METADATA AWARD: Elysha Miracle, please data management on rights, Concord
Impact price for technological excellence: DDEX (digital data exchange)
#Nextgen_now one to watch award: Emily Stephenson, president, Downtown Music Publishing
Frontline Innovator Award: Music by Grimey, Nashville
Music Business Educator of the Year Award: Jerry Brindisi, Columbia College Chicago
Change agent price: Equal access
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