Billboard (magazine)

Billboard

November 16, 2019, cover featuring Paul McCartney and highlighting the magazine's 125th anniversary
Editor	Hannah Karp
Former editors	Lee Zhito, Tony Gervino, Bill Werde, Tamara Conniff
Categories	Entertainment
Frequency	Weekly
Publisher	Penske Media Corporation
Total circulation	17,000 magazines per week 15.2 million unique visitors per month[1]
Founder	William Donaldson James Hennegan
Founded	November 1, 1894; 130 years ago (1894-11-01) (as Billboard Advertising)
Company	Eldridge Industries
Country	United States
Based in	New York City
Language	Arabic, English, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese
Website	www.billboard.com www.billboard.com.br
ISSN	0006-2510
OCLC	732913734

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events and styles related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in various music genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm and operates several television shows.

Billboard was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph and radio became commonplace. Many topics that it covered became the subjects of new magazines, including Amusement Business in 1961 to cover outdoor entertainment, so that Billboard could focus on music. After Donaldson died in 1925, Billboard was inherited by his and Hennegan's children, who retained ownership until selling it to private investors in 1985. The magazine has since been owned by various parties.