The Hottest 100 Australian managers of 2020!

Yesterday marked one of Australia’s biggest music events for the year, the count down of triple j’s Hottest 100 for 2020. While, the spotlight is thrust upon the winners, like Glass Animals, who took out #1 with ‘Heat Waves’, as well as many other talented musicians who earned top spots, very rarely do the managers behind the scenes get well-deserved recognition.

In light of this, like previous years, we’ve decided to take a closer look at all the managers behind the charting Aussie acts from yesterday, and rank them in terms of how well their artists performed.

To do this, we’ve decided to give each manager a number based on how well their artists charted in the countdown. For example, a #1 position gave Glass Animal’s manager a score of 100, #2 gave Spacey Jane’s a score of 99, and so on.

Collating this data, we’ve put together an in-depth list that helps to celebrate the often unsung heroes of the Aussie music scene; the managers.

The Hottest 100 Australian managers of 2020

1. Andrew Stone (Chugg Music) – 407 (5 songs with Lime Cordiale). Andrew Stone has taken out the top spot in our Hottest 100 Australian managers of the year list for the second year in a row. 

2. Kieran Lama – 278 (4 songs with Spacey Jane)

3. Jodie Regan (Spinning Top Music) – 248 (3 songs with Tame Impala)

4. Bill Cullen (One Louder Entertainment) & Andy Bryan (Stop Start) – 181 (3 songs with Ball Park Music)

5. Dan Zilber (Future Classic) – 180 (4 songs with G Flip)

6. Aaron Girgis (Space 44) – 149 (2 songs with Skegss and 1 song with Ruby Fields)

7. Nathan McLay (Future Classic) – 145 (2 songs with Flume)

8. Shane Billings – 140 (2 songs with Amy Shark)

9. Leon Rogovoy (Falcona) – 118 (2 songs with DMA’S)

10. Dan Nascimento (UNIFIED Music Group) – 116 (2 song with Ocean Alley)

11. Philip Stevens (Jarrah Records) – 115 (2 song with San Cisco)

12. Stu McCullough (Amplifire Music) – 105 (2 song with The Jungle Giants)

13. Regan Lethbridge & David Morgan (Lemon Tree Music) – 98 (1 song with Tash Sultana and 1 song with Tones And I)

14. Dylan Liddy (Blue Max Music) – 92 (1 song with Hilltop Hoods)

15. Kailei Ginman (Lucky Corporate) – 89 (1 song with Mashd N Kutcher)

16. Jim McKinnon (teamtrick) – 88 (1 songs with Mallrat)

17. Jesse Flavell (Sum Management) – 80 (1 song with KLP)

18. (Late Nite Business) – 80 (1 song with Stace Cadet)

19. Tim Manton (Tapmusic) – 79 (1 song with Eves Karydas)

20. Nate Flagrant (Flagrant Artists) – 74 (2 song with Ruel)

21. Summer King, Claire Collins (The Mustard Mix & Bossy Music) – 72 (1 song with Sycco)

22. Aiden McLaren (Bad Apples) – 71 (1 song with Birdz)

23. Andy Kelly (Winterman & Goldstein) – 66 (1 song with The Avalanches)

24. Chris Bosma – 60 (1 song with The Smith Street Band)

25. Anneka Alberts – 58 (1 song with Ziggy Alberts)

26. Ben Dennis (Myriad Management) – 51 (1 song with Peking Duk

27. Jayde Thompson (Artists Only) – 44 (1 song with Beddy Rays)

28. Jackson Walkden-Brown (Artists Only) – 43 (1 song with Tones And I)

29. Ruby-Jean McCabe (Bluebeard Music) – 42 (1 song with Bugs and 1 song with Hope D)

30. Michael Parisi (Michael Parisi Management) – 33 (1 song with Vera Blue)

31. Alex Frankel – 31 (1 song with Chet Faker)

32. Andrew Klippel (OURNESS) – 28 (1 song with Genesis Owusu)

33. Brett Fischer (AYITA) – 21 (1 song with FISHER)

34. Al O’Neill & Matt Weston (TBC Management) – 19 (1 song with The Chats)

35. Tom Huggett (Astral People) – 18 (1 songs with Cosmo’s Midnight)

36. Matty Woo (Macro Music) – 16 (1 song with Dune Rats)

37. Rachel Whitford (27 Music) – 14 (1 song with Teenage Joans)

38. Heath Bradby & Tank (Fidelity Corp) – 9 (1 song with Thelma Plum)

39. Daniel Radburn (Rad Music) – 7 (2 song with Hockey Dad)

40. Nick Yates (UNIFIED Music Group) – 6 (1 song with Illy)

This article originally appeared on The Industry Observer, which is now part of The Music Network.