About Billboard Magazine
Billboard Magazine, published weekly, is the premier trade publication for the music business. The magazine was founded in 1894 by William H. Donaldson and James H. Hennegan as a publication for the billposting and advertising business, but expanded over the decades to cover amusements, motion pictures, radio, recorded music and other areas of the rapidly growing entertainment industry. Now focused the music business and related enterprises, Billboard Magazine publishes news, analysis trend reporting and other key features, as well as Billboard's famous standard-setting charts of U.S. sales, airplay, downloads and box office grosses.
Access to complete versions and the full breadth of Billboard's charts is available to subscribers via Billboard.biz, the magazine's online home for its business audience, which also provides breaking news in the music and entertainment industries. Billboard.biz also houses all of the articles printed in each week's magazine, a database of all Billboard articles, reviews, features and special reports dating back to 1991, as well as weekly album, singles and video charts dating back to 1984 and year-end charts dating back to 1946.
Billboard.com is Billboard's consumer-facing internet arm, which attracts more than 4 million unique visitors each month in more than 100 countries. An ever-growing community of passionate music fans, Billboard.com's readers rely on the site for music news, videos, charts and more.
Billboard is the flagship property for the Billboard Information Group, which also consists of Billboard.biz, Billboard.com, Billboard Chart Alert, Billboard Information Network (BIN), Billboard Directories, Billboard Licensing & Events and Radio & Records. Billboard's many strategic partners include Fox-TV, Microsoft, Reuters, Sirius Satellite Radio, Telemundo, Univision Radio, ABC Radio Networks, Azteca America and Billboard sister companies Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
Billboard is headquartered in New York with bureaus in London, Los Angeles, and Miami and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe. The Group is a unit of Nielsen Business Media, a worldwide media company that provides specialized publications, electronically delivered data, expositions and marketing services and is owned by the Nielsen Company, a Netherlands-based international publishing and information company.
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