Pollstar’s 2026 Impact 50 Honorees!

Welcome to Pollstar’s 2026 Impact 50, our annual list recognizing the year’s most impactful executives in the live business. These best-in-class leaders represent a wide swath of the industry selected by Pollstar’s editorial team, with input from the industry and informed by Pollstar’s industry-leading box office data.

Congrats to Danny Wimmer, founder of leading independent promoter Danny Wimmer Presents, who is Pollstar‘s 2026’s Impact 50 Cover Honoree. DWP is an influential powerhouse selling over one million tickets last year via it’s impressive rock-heavy festival portfolio that includes Bourbon & Beyond, Louder Than Life, Aftershock, Golden Sky, Welcome to Rockville, Sonic Temple and Inkcarceration. In April, Wimmer launched DWP Concerts, which is currently helping develop a 10,000-capacity outdoor amphitheater in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

This year’s Impact 50’s convergence with Pollstar‘s 2026 Mid-Year Charts offers a unique opportunity to both quantify artist touring success and honor the executives who made that success possible. For example, among this year’s Impact 50 honorees are Rimas Ent.’s Noah Assad (Bad Bunny manager); Live Nation’s Arthur Fogel (Lady Gaga and Oasis’ promoter); MTG’s Louis Messina (Ed Sheeran, George Strait & Eric Church’s promoter); Red Light’s Mandelyn Monchick (Lainey Wilson’s manager) and Black Promoter Collective’s Gary Guidry (New Edition and Brandy & Monica tours). There’s far more examples in the write-ups below.

Congratulations to all the honorees! Your recognition is well deserved!

2026 Impact 50 Cover Honoree Danny Wimmer, founder of Danny Wimmer Presents

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2026 Impact 50 Honorees