Billboard's 2017 Country Power Players List Revealed: Music City's Most Influential

EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR SARAH TRAHERN, 53 CEO, Country Music Association From left: Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and Trahern photographed by Robby Klein on June 10 at Music City Center in Nashville.Robby Klein The Georgetown grad is midway through her fourth year as CEO of the CMA, the most muscular of any trade organization devoted to a single genre. Each June, its music festival draws hundreds of thousands of fans, raising millions of dollars for its charitable work in music education. The annual TV viewership of fall's CMA Awards, aired on ABC since 2006, is second only to the Grammys among music awards telecasts; even up against game seven of the 2016 World Series, the show held its own...