There Is a '50 Most Important People In EDM' List Now.

Mad Decent boss, Diplo came in at 31 on the list

As the EDM juggernaut lurches forward in the US, Rolling Stone have marked its rise by publishing their 50 Most Important People in EDM list. Notable entries include Boiler Room's Thristian Richards and Blaise Belleville, who came in at 50, Funktion-One founder Tony Andrews at 46, and SoundCloud founder Alexander Ljung at 22. It's easy to question and criticise who's not on the list, and it was hardly going to feature Robert Hood and Hessle Audio, but those that did make the cut seem to be a stark realisation of the current state of EDM - and how it will continue to operate and remain successful. While the list starts off with two recent and thriving companies, Boiler Room and Resident Advisor, there's a noticeable lack of other new movers and shakers from the industry.

Derrick Carter at Boiler Room, Sydney

The top 50 compilation is surprisingly dominated by heavyweight monetary figures such as Godskitchen and Hakkasan founder Neil Morfitt (17), At Night Management founder Ash Pournouri (28) and SFX Entertainment founder Robert Sillerman (3), and Dave Grutman the Miami Marketing Group founder (11), suggesting that a large part of EDM's birth and success was largely due to the presence of huge, cinematic super clubs in some of North America's most popular cities. The undeniably visible relationship between EDM and seriously big money immediately catapults the genre into mainstream music, as opposed to electronic music in the UK, which still so firmly has its roots in the underground club scene. Whatever you think of the run-down, it's clear that the EDM game is seriously raking it in.