Executives bankrolling the preferred and related movie and TV, creators shifting views, reps brokering each deal and expertise ensuring folks listen… they’re all on the high of the sport. That’s why they made THR’s definitive annual rundown of probably the most highly effective girls within the leisure business — which incorporates first-time honorees Taylor Swift, Quinta Brunson, Selena Gomez and Lizzo this yr. Here, they reveal who they’d commerce locations with for a day, make their predictions for Hollywood in 2023 and mirror on weird first jobs within the business. (Spoiler alert: ALF didn’t brush himself.)

In creating the 2022 record of leisure’s high feminine gamers, editors thought of portfolio sizes, sequence masses, TV scores, field workplace returns, awards, offers, workers overseen, income and revenue generated, subscriber counts and, let’s be trustworthy, management. Written by J. Clara Chan, Kirsten Chuba, Ashley Cullins, Mia Galuppo, Carolyn Giardina, Lesley Goldberg, Rebecca Keegan, Borys Kit, Pamela McClintock, Mikey O’Connell, Sydney Odman, Lacey Rose and Rebecca Sun