Music Business Association Names 2025 Bizzy Award Winners

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Lecrae and Downtown Music Publishing’s Emily Stephenson

The Music Business Association (Music Biz) honored this year’s Bizzy Award winners at 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, hosted by artist & Reach Records founder, Lecrae, and featured performances by Tayla Parx (Warner Chappell Music) & Yami Safdie (Warner Music Latina).

Nashville-based President of Downtown Music Publishing, Emily Stephenson, was awarded with the #NEXTGEN_NOW One to Watch Award, while SVP of Rights Data Management at Concord, Elysha Miracle, won the Maestro of Metadata Award. Grimey’s won the Bizzy Frontline Innovator Award, and the lauded Equal Access program was honored with the Agent of Change Award.

This year marks the fourth time that nominations for the Association’s awards program were crowd-sourced, allowing the global music business at large to recognize their companies and peers who are making a difference in improving the global industry.

2025 Bizzy Award Winners:
Leading Light Award: Colleen Theis, President & COO, The Orchard
Presidential Award for Outstanding Executive Achievement: Cindy Charles, Twitch – Posthumous Honor accepted by Charles’ husband
Marketing Superstar Award: MF DOOM – MM..FOOD (20 Year Anniversary), Rhymesayers Entertainment
Maestro of Metadata Award: Elysha Miracle, SVP of Rights Data Management, Concord
Impact Award for Technological Excellence: DDEX (Digital Data Exchange)
#NEXTGEN_NOW One to Watch Award: Emily Stephenson, President, Downtown Music Publishing
Frontline Innovator Award: Grimey’s Music, Nashville
Music Business Educator of the Year Award: Jerry Brindisi, Columbia College Chicago
Agent of Change Award: Equal Access

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