American business magazine, Forbes, has released its 2018 world’s most powerful women and Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, Serena Williams, Taylor Swift, Priyanka Chopra, made the list.
The list was released on Tuesday to celebrate women who are making gainful strides and charting the course.
For the most powerful women in entertainment, notable names such as Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Shonda Rhimes, Anna Wintour, Priyanka Chopra, Serena Williams, and more made it to the list.
Worth an estimated $135 million, Rhimes is the wealthiest female showrunner; the person who oversees writing and production of each TV episode in Hollywood.
Beyoncé In 2018 became the first black woman to headline Coachella.
Here’s the full list of Media and Entertainment power women:
1. Oprah Winfrey, Media mogul
2. Shari Redstone, Vice Chair, CBS & Viacom
3. Bonnie Hammer, Chair, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment
4. Donna Langley, Chair, Universal Pictures
5. Anna Wintour, Artistic Director, Conde Nast
6. Beyoncé, Singer
7. Dana Walden, Chairman, Disney TV Studios and ABC Entertainment
8. Katharine Viner, Editor-in-Chief, Guardian
9. Taylor Swift, Singer
10. Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
11. Kathleen Kennedy, President, Lucasfilm
12. Shonda Rhimes, Showrunner
13. Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global
14. Serena Williams, Tennis player
15. Shobhana Bhartia, Chair, HT Media
16. Priyanka Chopra, Actress
Here is The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women:
#1 Angela Merkel 64 Germany Politics
#2 Theresa May 62 United Kingdom Politics
#3 Christine Lagarde 62 France Economy
#4 Mary Barra 56 United States Automotive
#5 Abigail Johnson 56 United States Finance and Investments
#6 Melinda Gates 54 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#7 Susan Wojcicki 50 United States Technology
#8 Ana Patricia Botín 58 Spain Finance and Investments
#9 Marillyn Hewson 64 United States Manufacturing
#10 Ginni Rometty 61 United States Enterprise Technology
#11 Sheryl Sandberg 49 United States Technology
#12 Gail Boudreaux 58 United States Healthcare
#13 Angela Ahrendts 58 United States Technology
#14 Safra Catz 56 United States Technology
#15 Isabelle Kocher 51 France Energy
#16 Adena Friedman 49 United States Finance and Investments
#17 Ho Ching 65 Singapore Diversified
#18 Emma Walmsley 49 United Kingdom Healthcare
#19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices – United States Politics
#20 Oprah Winfrey 64 United States Media & Entertainment
#21 Ruth Porat 61 United States Technology
#22 Laurene Powell Jobs 55 United States Education
#23 Queen Elizabeth II 92 United Kingdom Politics
#24 Ivanka Trump 37 United States Politics
#25 Phebe Novakovic 60 United States Diversified
#26 Sheikh Hasina Wajed 71 Bangladesh Politics
#27 Stacey Cunningham 44 United States Finance and Investments
#28 Amy Hood 46 United States Technology
#29 Jacinda Ardern 38 New Zealand Politics
#30 Gina Rinehart 64 Australia Metals & Mining
#31 Shari Redstone 64 United States Media & Entertainment
#32 Carrie Lam – Hong Kong Politics
#33 Mary Callahan Erdoes 51 United States Finance and Investments
#34 Rosalind Brewer 55 United States Diversified
#35 Erna Solberg 57 Norway Politics
#36 Bonnie Hammer 68 United States Media & Entertainment
#37 Lisa Davis 55 United States Diversified
#38 Marianne Lake 49 United Kingdom Finance and Investments
#39 Mingzhu Dong 64 China Manufacturing
#40 Tsai Ing-wen 62 Taiwan Politics
#41 Donna Langley 50 United Kingdom Media & Entertainment
#42 Anne Finucane – United States Finance and Investments
#43 Gillian Tans – Netherlands Service
#44 Thi Phuong Thao Nguyen 48 Vietnam Diversified
#45 Nicola Sturgeon 48 United Kingdom Politics
#46 Jean Liu 40 China Technology
#47 Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic 50 Croatia Politics
#48 Anna Wintour 69 United States Media & Entertainment
#49 Elvira Nabiullina 55 Russia Finance and Investments
#50 Beyoncé Knowles 37 United States Media & Entertainment
#51 Roshni Nadar Malhotra 37 India Technology
#52 Dana Walden 54 United States Media & Entertainment
#53 Priscilla Chan 33 United States Philanthropy/NGO
#54 Tricia Griffith 54 United States Service
#55 Jennifer Morgan 47 United States Diversified
#56 Feng Ying Wang – China Automotive
#57 Maggie Wei Wu 50 China Fashion & Retail
#58 Lubna S. Olayan 63 Saudi Arabia Diversified
#59 Gwynne Shotwell 55 United States Aerospace
#60 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw 65 India Healthcare
#61 Melanie Kreis 47 Germany Logistics
#62 Zhou Qunfei 48 Hong Kong Technology
#63 Dalia Grybauskaite 62 Lithuania Politics
#64 Güler Sabanci 63 Turkey Diversified
#65 Peng Liyuan 56 China Politics
#66 Katharine Viner 46 United Kingdom Media & Entertainment
#67 Federica Mogherini 45 Italy Politics
#68 Taylor Swift 28 United States Media & Entertainment
#69 Belinda Johnson 51 United States Technology
#70 Zanny Minton Beddoes – United Kingdom Media & Entertainment
#71 Kathleen Kennedy – United States Media & Entertainment
#72 Lynn Good – United States Energy
#73 Solina Chau 56 Hong Kong Technology
#74 Shonda Rhimes 48 United States Media & Entertainment
#75 Judy Faulkner 75 United States Technology
#76 Kersti Kaljulaid 48 Estonia Politics
#77 Arianna Huffington 68 United States Media & Entertainment
#78 Sri Mulyani Indrawati 56 Indonesia Politics
#79 Serena Williams 37 United States Sports
#80 Meg Whitman 62 United States Technology
#81 Denise Coates 51 United Kingdom Gambling & Casinos
#82 Raja Easa Al Gurg – United Arab Emirates Diversified
#83 Eliza Manningham-Buller 70 United Kingdom Philanthropy/NGO
#84 Wai Ying Lam – Hong Kong Manufacturing
#85 Michelle Bachelet 67 Chile Politics
#86 Lee Boo-jin 48 South Korea Service
#87 Jenny Lee 46 Singapore Finance and Investments
#88 Shobhana Bhartia 61 India Media & Entertainment
#89 Kirsten Green 47 United States Finance and Investments
#90 Geisha Williams – United States Service
#91 Ana Brnabic 43 Serbia Politics
#92 Anne Wojcicki 45 United States Technology
#93 Aileen Lee 48 United States Finance and Investments
#94 Priyanka Chopra 36 India Media & Entertainment
#95 Rania Nashar – Saudi Arabia Finance and Investments
#96 Dominique Senequier 65 France Finance and Investments
#97 Sahle-Work Zewde – Ethiopia Politics
#98 Theresia Gouw 46 United States Finance and Investments
#99 Margarita Louis-Dreyfus 56 Switzerland Food and Beverage
#100 Beth Brooke-Marciniak