{"id":31175,"date":"2025-01-08T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elton-john-lands-on-variety500-list-of-showbiz-leaders\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:04:13","slug":"elton-john-lands-on-variety500-list-of-showbiz-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elton-john-lands-on-variety500-list-of-showbiz-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John lands on Variety500 list of showbiz leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Noam Galai\/Getty Images for TIME<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Variety\u00a0<\/span><\/em>has put together its annual list of the 500 biggest names in showbiz over the past year, and Elton John<\/strong> has made the cut.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rock\u00a0& Roll Hall of Famer is recognized in the Talent category of the\u00a0<\/span>Variety500<\/span><\/a>, which was released ahead of the publication’s annual Entertainment Summit on Jan. 8. According to the trade, the list recognizes the year’s “leaders, movers and shakers” in the entertainment world.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Elton is singled out for all the recent highlights of his career, including the 2024 release of the documentary <\/span>Elton John: Never Too Late<\/span><\/em>, the 2023 conclusion of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour and the livestream of the final\u00a0show\u00a0on Disney+, <\/span>Elton John Live: Farewell From Dodger Stadium<\/span><\/em>, which earned him an Emmy, making him an EGOT winner.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other musicians making the Talent list this year include Taylor Swift<\/strong>, Harry Styles<\/strong>, Ariana Grande<\/strong>, Selena Gomez,<\/strong>\u00a0Rihanna<\/strong> and Beyonc\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The rest of the 500 names are in TV, film, gaming, production, digital media, marketing, podcasting and other entertainment-related disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noam Galai\/Getty Images for TIME Variety\u00a0has put together its annual list of the 500 biggest names in showbiz over the past year, and Elton John has made the cut. The Rock\u00a0& Roll Hall of Famer is recognized in the Talent category of the\u00a0Variety500, which was released ahead of the publication’sRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}