Billboard is an American entertainment
and music magazine. It was
first published in November of 1894 as an
entertainment publication and is distinguished as being among the oldest trade
magazines in the world. The magazine originally
focused on bill posting and outdoor amusements
before concentrating on music and related fields beginning in the 30's
Most of the 1980's, 90's and 00's issues are available thanks
to a donation by chart historian Monty Greenly. Many
60's issues come from
Kees Brinkerink.
Other contributors include Rodolfo Ovalle, Rob
Hawkins, and Arie den Dulk.
Help... Help us Fix Incomplete Issues
Please help us add missing pages. We'll pay your
shipping and return. Or you can scan and submit the
missing pages (jpg or tiff, please).
Other Billboard Publications
Country Airplay Monitor
Airplay Monitor
Many Issues Still Needed! Please lend for
scanning any of the missing issues. We'll pay your
shipping and return.
Our goal is to have on this page all issues
and special editions and directories from Billboard
from 1894 to 2017: Over 130 total years. These are the issues the
magazine has released into the public domain
including Google Books.
This
collection has unique features that you will not
find on other sites.
1
Searchable contents: Enter names, words or phrases
2
Searchable by
year and decade. Limit your search to one period
of time.
3
Easy to read in
world-standard PDF format.
4
The collection
includes special editions, directories and
other Billboard publications.
5
This whole site is
FREE. No ads, no cost.
6
You can search
multiple music industry magazines all at
once.
Over 70 different chart-related books covering
nearly all genres of music.
Order direct
or see the Joel Whitburn
collection at
Amazon. This is not a paid
endorsement... we simply love the "Whitburn books"
and think you should consider having at least one!
Billboard Charts
How Billboard Tracks the
Hits:
A description of how
charts are put together
April 9, 1988
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Double" indicates
that the issue had a
"newsstand" life of
two weeks
as the
following week
was skipped
with no issue.
"Triple" indicates a three-week interval
between issues
