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'Forbes' Names Rihanna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Most Powerful Female Musicians of 2019

Check out the publication’s list of 100 Most Powerful Women here.

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'Forbes' Names Rihanna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift Most Powerful Female Musicians of 2019

Check out the publication’s list of 100 Most Powerful Women here.

Forbes has released its list of 100 Most Powerful Women of 2019, naming Rihanna, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift the top three most powerful musicians of the year. Though the list is dominated by politicians and businesspeople such as Angela Merkel — who tops the list as number one for the ninth year in a row — Nancy Pelosi (#3) and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (#18), entertainers including Oprah Winfrey (#20) and Reese Witherspoon (#90) also made the cut. Notably, climate activist Greta Thunberg is the youngest person ranked, coming in at #100 — the 16-year-old was also named TIME‘s Person Of The Year.

Check out the full list of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women below.

Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women 2019

#1 Angela Merkel
#2 Christine Lagarde
#3 Nancy Pelosi
#4 Ursula von der Leyen
#5 Mary Barra
#6 Melinda Gates
#7 Abigail Johnson
#8 Ana Patricia Botín
#9 Ginni Rometty
#10 Marillyn Hewson
#11 Gail Boudreaux
#12 Susan Wojcicki
#13 Isabelle Kocher
#14 Safra Catz
#15 Kristalina Georgieva
#16 Julie Sweet
#17 Emma Walmsley
#18 Sheryl Sandberg
#19 Ruth Porat
#20 Oprah Winfrey
#21 Judith McKenna
#22 Jessica Tan
#23 Ho Ching
#24 Phebe Novakovic
#25 Shari Redstone
#26 Amy Hood
#27 Stacey Cunningham
#28 Jessica Uhl
#29 Sheikh Hasina Wajed
#30 Adena Friedman
#31 Mary Callahan Erdoes
#32 Jane Fraser
#33 Laurene Powell Jobs
#34 Nirmala Sitharaman
#35 Marianne Lake
#36 Gina Rinehart
#37 Kathy Warden
#38 Jacinda Ardern
#39 Anne Finucane
#40 Queen Elizabeth II
#41 Tsai Ing-wen
#42 Ivanka Trump
#43 Rosalind Brewer
#44 Mingzhu Dong
#45 Erna Solberg
#46 Dana Walden
#47 Vicki Hollub
#48 Jennifer Salke
#49 Jennifer Morgan
#50 Nicola Sturgeon
#51 Donna Langley
#52 Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen
#53 Elvira Nabiullina
#54 Roshni Nadar Malhotra
#55 Gwynne Shotwell
#56 Tricia Griffith
#57 Maggie Wei Wu
#58 Feng Ying Wang
#59 Lynn Good
#60 Paula Santilli
#61 Rihanna
#62 Melanie Kreis
#63 Hooi Ling Tan
#64 Bonnie Hammer
#65 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
#66 Beyoncé Knowles
#67 Zhou Qunfei
#68 Sophie Wilmes
#69 Jane Jie Sun
#70 Katharine Viner
#71 Taylor Swift
#72 Judy Faulkner
#73 Güler Sabanci
#74 Kathleen Kennedy
#75 Mette Frederiksen
#76 Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#77 Andrea Marques de Almeida
#78 Solina Chau
#79 Ava DuVernay
#80 Zuzana Caputova
#81 Serena Williams
#82 Mary Meeker
#83 Lam Wai Ying
#84 Raja Easa Al Gurg
#85 Eliza Manningham-Buller
#86 Jenny Lee
#87 Lee Boo-jin
#88 Ana Brnabic
#89 Meg Whitman
#90 Reese Witherspoon
#91 Anne Wojcicki
#92 Aileen Lee
#93 Sahle-Work Zewde
#94 Dominique Senequier
#95 Kirsten Green
#96 Renuka Jagtiani
#97 Rania Nashar
#98 Amina Mohammed
#99 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
#100 Greta Thunberg

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