Time Announces The 100 Most Influential People in The World

Photo: Mark Seliger for Time

Every year Time magazine announces their picks for the 100 most influential people in the world and this year they are doing things a bit different.

On Thursday, April 18, seven different covers were released featuring some of the influential people who made the list ranging from music, movies, sports and politics.

“Silver Linings Playbook” Academy Award winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, “Open Letter” rapper Jay-Z, Elon Musk (CEO and founder, SpaceX; co-founder, Tesla Motors and PayPal), Sen. Rand Paul and teen activist Malala Yousafzai each appear on their own covers for the issue. Professional tennis player Li Na and Indian film maker Aamir Khan also appear on some of the U.S. covers.

So who else made the list this year? Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé, Bryan Cranston, Lena Dunham, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Miguel, Justin Timberlake and President Barack Obama are all on the Time 100 Most Influential People in the World list. Each person featured on the list writes up a feature on another influential person i.e Jodie Foster writes about Jennifer Lawrence and Justin Timberlake writes about his pal Jimmy Fallon.

See Time’s full list of 100 Most Influential People in the World in the magazine on newsstands this Friday, April 19.