HYBE’s Bang Si-hyuk (hitmanb72) and JYPE’s Park Jin-young (asiansoul_jyp) have both made it onto Billboard’s Power 100 for 2026, which highlights the most influential figures in the global music industry. Bang Si-hyuk was named joint No.30 in the Leaderboard category alongside HYBE CEO Lee Jae-sang and HYBE America Chairman & CEO Isaac Lee. He also ranked No.5 in the Multisector category, which measures overall impact across the music industry. Billboard pointed to HYBE’s “multi-home, multi-genre” strategy, noting how it’s localizing the K-pop production system and expanding globally. This marks Bang’s sixth time on the Power 100 list, once again proving his global influence. Meanwhile, Park Jin-young was ranked joint No.12 in the Multisector category together with JYP CEO Jung Wook and JYP America head Shin Hyun-guk. Billboard highlighted JYP’s strong performance, including Stray Kids’ world tour as well as growing concert and merch sales, as key reasons for the ranking. 하이브의 방...