Vibe is a music and entertainment magazine founded in 1993 that predominantly features R&B and hip-hop artists. It has a target demographic of young, urban followers of hip-hop culture. The magazine includes segments like artist interviews, reviews of new music and fashion spreads. It had a peak circulation of 800,000 but shut down its print edition in 2009, moving to a digital format. Billboard is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world, founded in 1894. It maintains several music charts, most notably the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200 album charts, that track the popularity of songs and albums. The magazine started as a trade paper for the billposting industry and began publishing music charts in the 1930s as the music

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3. Research into Billboard Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis. The two most notable charts are the Billboard Hot 100, which ranks the top 100 songs regardless of genre and is based on physical sales, digital sales and radio airplay; and the Billboard 200, the corresponding chart for album sales. Billboard was founded in Cincinnati on November 1, 1894, by William h. Donaldson and James Hennegan. Originally titled Billboard Advertising it was a trade paper for the bill posting industry, hence the magazine's name. With the development of the jukebox industry during the 1930s, The Billboard began publishing music charts. Originally, there were only three genre-specific charts: Pop, Rhythm & Blues, and Country & Western. In the 1950s it introduced a section covering the television industry, including ratings charts for programs. It continued to carry news of fairs, carnivals, theme parks and other outdoor entertainments until 1961 when these departments were spun off into a new weekly magazine called Amusement Business. By this time the television coverage had also been moved to another publication. At the start of 1961, The Billboard was renamed Billboard Music Week. The publication was now devoted almost entirely to the music industry, with some coverage of coin-operated vending and entertainment machines on its jukebox pages. The title was changed to simply Billboard at the start of 1963. In 2005, the magazine and its web sites were repositioned to provide coverage of all forms of digital and mobile entertainment.