Article 1 : NARIP Announces 2009 Best in the Biz Winners

http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2009-02-0203-004.shtml

This article was very interesting to me, as well as pertinent to our class. As a music business class, in one way or another, we aspire to "be" those names and companies on those lists. These are the people and companies, etc who are getting recognition for being the best at what they do.
Most of the names are "under the radar"/ "behind the scenes" people that typically do not get recognition, but these are the people that do a lot of work to make the music industry the great industry it is.
I was surprised to see Billboard as the overwhelming winner of "Best Source Of Music Business News"and I think it's interesting Timbaland was nominated for 'Best Music Producer". I was not surprised Rick Rubin won that won. I look forward to researching who some of these people are and seeing why they are recognized for the best at what they do.