Billboard magazine was founded in 1894 in Cincinnati, Ohio as a trade publication for the bill posting industry. Originally titled Billboard Advertising, it began carrying news about outdoor amusements that utilized billboard advertising. Over time, Billboard became a leading publication covering circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, fairs, vaudeville shows, and other live entertainment events. Today, Billboard is an American music magazine owned by Prometheus Global Media that tracks music charts and focuses on the music industry. It publishes weekly and maintains internationally-recognized charts tracking the most popular songs and albums.

2. 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. Billboard magazine is published
weekly and the first issue was published in 1894. Published by the American
entertainment publishing company Prometheus Global Media, it attracts more than 4
million visitors each month in more than 100 countries. Billboard.com's readers rely
on the site for music news, videos, charts and more. magazine is of a high price
at£5.50 in the UK, however this high price maybe due to the magazine been imported
from the U.S. and quality features. 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.
Billboard is an American music magazine, headquartered in New York City, New
York and owned by Prometheus Global Media. It was first published on November 1,
1894, and is distinguished as being among the oldest trade magazines in the world.
The magazine originally focused on bill postingand outdoor amusements before
specializing in the music industry in the 1960s. Billboard maintains several
internationally-recognized record charts, which track the most popular songs and
albums across several categories on a weekly basis. Its primary charts.
Source: Wikipedia

3. In 2008 achieved a circulation of 18,385. The target audience of "Billboard
is primarily the U.S. Billboard is a chart magazine covering all genres,
artists and albums in the chart, this shows that there is a wide range of
target audience that are in to the main stream side of music, and I believe
this will help me know the difference of uncharted/underground music
and charted music in my music magazine based around Hip-Hop/R&B.
Billboard magazine started in the US but also sold in the UK. Teens, young
adults are its main target audience as it mainly includes new music.

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