19 Facts About Billboard magazine

1.

The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry.

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2.

Billboard magazine was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters.

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3.

Billboard magazine began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace.

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4.

Billboard magazine improved editorial quality and opened new offices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, London, and Paris, and re-focused the magazine on outdoor entertainment such as fairs, carnivals, circuses, vaudeville, and burlesque shows.

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5.

Billboard magazine covered topics including regulation, a lack of professionalism, economics, and new shows.

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6.

The location of an entertainer was tracked in the paper's Routes Ahead column, then Billboard magazine would receive mail on the star's behalf and publish a notice in its "Letter-Box" column that it had mail for them.

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7.

Billboard magazine began covering the motion picture industry in 1907, but ended up focusing on music due to competition from Variety.

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8.

Billboard magazine published the first music hit parade on January 4,1936, and introduced a "Record Buying Guide" in January 1939.

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9.

The Billboard magazine's offices moved to Brighton, Ohio, in 1946, then to New York City in 1948.

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10.

Over time, subjects that Billboard still covered outside of music were spun-off into separate publications: Funspot magazine was created in 1957 to cover amusement parks, and Amusement Business was created in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment.

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11.

In January 1961, Billboard magazine was renamed as Billboard magazine Music Week to emphasize its newly exclusive interest in music.

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12.

Billboard magazine struggled after its founder William Donaldson died in 1925, and, within three years, was heading towards bankruptcy.

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13.

In 2004, Tamara Conniff became the first female and youngest-ever executive editor at Billboard magazine, and led its first major redesign since the 1960s, by Daniel Stark and Stark Design.

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14.

In 2005, Billboard magazine expanded its editorial outside the music industry into other areas of digital and mobile entertainment.

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15.

The Billboard magazine has since been making changes to make it more of a general interest music news source as opposed to solely an industry trade, branching out into covering more celebrity, fashion, and gossip.

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16.

On September 12,2016, Billboard magazine expanded into China by launching Billboard magazine China in a partnership with Vision Music Ltd.

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17.

Billboard magazine has published books in collaboration with Watson-Guptill and a radio and television series called American Top 40, based on Billboard magazine charts.

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18.

Billboard magazine is considered one of the most reputable sources of music industry news.

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19.

Billboard magazine is known for publishing several annual listicles on its website, in recognition of the most influential executives, artists and companies in the music industry, such as the following:.

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