March 18, 2010

Top Ten Top Twenties: David Hyman

November 16, 2009 10:00 AM

Digital music pioneer, San Franciscan, stereophile, snowboarder, foodie, and inventor, David Hyman is also the CEO and Founder of MOG, a network of thousands of music blogs. For almost three years, with David Katznelson, Hyman has produced an informative and socially enriching monthly music industry mixer called Musica Tecnomica, where David both engages and encourages growth within the digital music industry he played a major role in creating.

Prior to MOG, Hyman held various roles (CEO, Executive VP, and Chief Strategy Officer) at Gracenote, the world's largest database and music identification service.

As SVP Maketing at MTV Interactive, the digital holding company for all of MTV online properties, David oversaw all marketing activities for MTV.com and VH1.com.

  With a clear fondness for music, technology, blogs and networks, Hyman is also a co-founder of one of the first online music magazines, Addicted To Noise, ultimately forging their landmark merger with SonicNet, creating the largest online music website at the time. Soon thereafter the entire package was purchased by MTV.com.

  If you have consumed digital music at all over the last 15 years, you have very likely encountered David Hyman's work, born out of a deep love of music, and an unstoppable innate drive to innovate and build.  

Top 20 albums 2000 - 2009 - David Hyman  
(artist groupings, and in no particular order)  

Radiohead
Kid A , Amnesiac , In Rainbows

Jay-Z - Unplugged  

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger  

Jay Dee - Donuts

  Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall, 1971  

Cat Power - You Are Free  

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

  Eels - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations  

Grinderman - Grinderman

  Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III  

Neko Case - Blacklisted  

PJ Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea 
White Chalk 
 
Tom Waits
Alice 
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards  