The Power 50: #9 - Millie Millgate

Millie Millgate spent over a decade working in booking (The Hopetoun and The Annandale Hotels) and artist management before working with organisations like Association Of Artist Managers and MusicNSW. She joined Sounds Australia in 2009.

2019 marked Sounds Australia’s tenth anniversary and it brought a number of key achievements with it. In June, the organisation celebrated with a near-5,000 person strong crowd in New York City’s Central Park, taking much-loved event The Aussie BBQ to the US city with acts like AB Original, The Teskey Brothers, WAAX and more.

Sounds Australia’s presence was again felt around the globe in 2019, with Australia made the Feature Country Focus at both Brighton’s The Great Escape and Hamburg’s Reeperbahn events. Austin’s SXSW wouldn’t have been complete without Sounds Australia and The Aussie BBQ either, with acts like Angie McMahon, Emerson Snowe, Mo'Ju, Amyl & The Sniffers and representing Aus for 2019.  

July also saw the organisation wrap up three years as the industry research partner for the Born Global: Australian Music Exports report, which investigated the cultural and economic value of Australian music exports, valuing these exports at $194.6 million.

In December, ARIA committed to Sounds Australia while Phonographic Performance Company of Australia (PPCA) also increased its yearly contribution. “The addition of ARIA as a major funding partner as we head into Sounds Australia’s second decade truly reflects the significance of export and the commitment the Australian music industry is collectively making towards the success and future of our artists internationally,” said Millgate at the time.

"2019 was a huge year for Sounds Australia as we celebrated ten years of exporting Australian Music around the world. To be able to culminate those years by launching our biggest public-facing event in Central Park, along with delivering Australia as the focus at two premier international events in the UK and Europe was definitely something. More so, the fact that we achieved this with a small team of four people, continues to amaze me. That said, it’s those people Esti Zilber, Glenn Dickie and Dom Alessio that are the reason I am even completing this profile."