The 2017 list has been released. While there are mainstays — Emmanuel Macron, President of France, tops the list for the first time and in his last year of eligibility, while Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook comes in at No. 2 — three new faces made the list: Serena Williams at No. 7, Kevin Hart at No. 17, and Chance The Rapper at No. 29. Chance’s entry on the list also makes him the youngest-ever person to make the Fortune 40 Under 40, at the age of 24.
The Chicago native has been subverting the music industry’s traditional business model since he was a teenager, declining to sign with a major label and instead releasing his own streaming-only mixtapes, featuring unique strains of hip hop splashed with sunny spirituality. Last year, he won the first-ever GRAMMY (three of them) for a streaming-only album and received $500,000 to debut the tracks exclusively on Apple Music. He’s also a celeb endorser for Nestle, Nike, and even Twitter. Up next: He’s set to star in the movie Slice as a pizza-delivery driver/werewolf.
The entire list can be seen here.
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