Music's Top Money Makers: The Highest-Paid Executives at Publicly Traded Companies

For the second time in three years, Universal Music Group chairman/CEO Lucian Grainge tops Billboard’s annual list of the highest compensated music executives. In the first year of a five-year employment contract, Grainge earned $150.3 million, nearly six times the $25.6 million paid to second-place finisher James Dolan, executive chairman/CEO of both Sphere Entertainment Co. and Madison Square Garden Entertainment. Live Nation president/CEO Michael Rapino, last year’s No. 1, was third at $23.4 million.

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