The anger and frustration over BILLBOARD's assessment of who runs the music biz continues. NOISEY's EMMA GARLAND reports that, statistically speaking, the 2016 POWER 100 is even more white and more male than the 2015 POWER 100, which could not have been easy to achieve. And then she lets the magazine off the hook because "the list is about business power, not cultural influence, and as such is more or less frighteningly accurate." But that's not true. It's a listicle in a trade magazine that reflects little more than the magazine's perception of who matters (and, for all we know, who the magazine owes some favors to). Here are some of the actual metrics it claims to use: "reputation among peers," "overall impact in the industry," "career trajectory." You don't need to install quotas to get different results. You just need to talk to different peers and look at different careers. Step outside your bubble. See if you can maybe find the black person in the executive dining room at APPLE MUSIC. Or perhaps try to track down more than 12 of the 50 women that you ghettoed into this listicle two months ago. Or just don't do lists, because they're not all that useful... But also, labels, publishers, management companies, everyone else: Pin that BILLBOARD list to your office walls and stare at it long and hard every time you have to hire or promote someone. That might help, too... Without wandering too far down the slippery slope of U.S. politics, I think it's fair to say that the current occupants of the WHITE HOUSE have the best musical ears of anyone who's lived there in a long time. And that things are probably going to get a lot worse 11 months from now... Nominees for the first ELECTRONIC MUSIC AWARDS... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from AFRICAINE 808, PRINS THOMAS, BJ THE CHICAGO KID, ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, MATMOS, WOLFMOTHER, WILD NOTHING, CARRIE RODRIGUEZ, CAVERN OF ANTI-MATTER, SETH BOGART, RICK SPRINGFIELD and the RICK RUBIN-curated "STAR WARS HEADSPACE."