Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world, founded in 1894. Originally titled Billboard Advertising it was a trade paper for the bill posting industry. Within a few years of its founding, it began to carry news of outdoor amusements, a major consumer of billboard space.
Eventually Billboard became the paper of record for circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, vaudeville, minstrels, whale shows and other live entertainment. The magazine began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s. With the development of the juke box industry during the 1930s, Billboard began publishing music charts.
Now Billboard has partnered with Google to offer digital versions of more than 1000 classic issues of Billboard magazine for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. Look at charts dating back to the '40s, read reviews of iconic '60s albums, revisit cover stories through the 2000s and relive music history, exactly as it happened.
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