However, she is quick to share credit not just with the company’s leaders and her teams over the years, but also for the guidance she received along the way. After a stint at Infinity Records (“They closed - apparently Infinity wasn’t forever,” she cracks), Ganis arrived at Warner Music’s Atlantic label and quickly became a legend at the company and within the industry.

Ganis began her career as an assistant at Polydor Records and quickly became the first female on the company’s national promotion staff. That streak has continued over the years, particularly with the remarkably consistent current regime of co-chairs Craig Kallman and Julie Greenwald, who have steered the ship since 2004. “My early years began with the Rolling Stones, Bette Midler, Abba, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Phil Collins, U2, Stevie Nicks and so many more, including songs that I forgot I promoted until I hear them in a store and point up and say, ‘I worked that record!’” “Atlantic was a powerhouse then as it is now, so I got to work legendary acts throughout my career,” says the New York native. She rose through the ranks at Atlantic Records until they had to create a new title for her: president of promotion. Few music industry vets approach the level of royalty in the radio world that Andrea Ganis, Variety‘s Hitbreaker of the Year, inhabits.

Atlantic records