Universal CEO/chairman Lucian Grainge “most influential” British music exec.

Universal Music CEO and Chairman Lucian Grainge is the most influential music executive in Britain today, according to The Sunday Times.

Grainge topped the music list of the newspaper’s 500 ’Most Influential’ Britons list. Presented in association with social listing site Debrett’s, the list looked at the people most likely to inspire, persuade, change lives and fuel ambitions.

The 20 on the stand-alone music list were:

Lucian Grainge (CEO/Chairman, Universal Music Group)

David Joseph (CEO/Chairman, Universal Music UK)

Nick Gatfield (CEO/Chairman, Sony Music UK)

George Ergatoudis (Head Of Music, BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra)

Simon Cowell (Founder, Syco)

Ian Hogarth (Founder, Songkick)

Jo Dipple (CEO, UK Music)

Alexis Petridis (Music Critic, The Guardian/GQ)

Tim Ingham (Editor, Music Week)

Mark Cooper (Head of Music TV, BBC)

Tom Connaughton (Director of Programming/Content, VEVO)

Pete Tong (Presenter/DJ)

Zane Lowe (Presenter/DJ, BBC Radio 1)

Simon Moran (Founder, SJM Concerts)

Oliver Schusser (Senior Director of International, iTunes)

James Cator (Manager of Content Partnerships, YouTube)

Kevin Brown (Head of EU Label Relations, Spotify)

Gary Barlow (Artist and songwriter)

Emily Eavis (Co-organiser, Glastonbury)

Jools Holland (Artist and TV presenter)

Others on the list were designer Stella McCartney, models Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne, footballer David Beckham, author Sir Vidia Naipaul, TV executive Elizabeth Murdoch of Shine Ltd, Pakistani teenage campaigner Malala Yousafzai, actor Christian Bale and Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman.

Noted for their charity work were Sir Richard Branson, Sir Elton John, Stephen Fry and Comic Relief founders Lenny Henry and Richard Curtis.

The list of influential filmmakers included Danny Boyle, Steve McQueen, Sir Ridley Scott, Sam Mendes and Guy Ritchie.