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Billboard

Billboard

Billboard is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries It publishes pieces involving news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style. It is also known for its music charts, including the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard 200, tracking the most popular singles and albums in different genres. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows.

In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows. It also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. Billboard began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace.

Billboard

Billboard's editorial changed focus as technology in recording and playback developed. It covered "marvels of modern technology" like the phonograph, record players and wireless radios.It began covering coin-operated entertainment machines in 1899 and created a dedicated section for them called "Amusement Machines" in March 1932.

Billboard

Billboard publishes a news website and weekly magazine that cover music, video and home entertainment. Most of the articles are written by staff writers, while some are written by industry experts. It covers news, gossip, opinion,and music reviews, but its "most enduring and influential creation" is the Billboard charts.

NME

NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism magazine that has been published since 1952. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the edition of 14 November 1952. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. During the period 1972 to 1976, it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism, then became closely associated with punk rock through the writings of Julie Burchill, Paul Morley andTony Parsons. It started as a music newspaper, and moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s, changing from newsprint in 1998.

An online version, NME.com, was launched in 1996. It became the world's biggest standalone music site, with over seven million users per month. With newsstand sales falling across the UK magazine sector, the magazine's paid circulation in the first half of 2014 was 15,830. In 2013, the list of NME's The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and the way it was conceived was criticized by the media

NME had some of the biggest names in music covering their magazine. Ranging from acts such as Nirvana, The Stone Roses and the Arctic Monkeys. Now featuring Jay-Z, Florence and The Machine and many others.

The magazine has been able to reach different music fans and musical genres successfully and for many years.

NME

The paper was established in 1952. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the US magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart, a list of the Top Twelve best-selling singles.

NME

Due to the lack of people buying magazines, they have now stopped being sold. Although the magazines have stopped being flowed there website is still gong strong. Music wise they are known to be the most reliable source of information, normally first to know for festival line ups and new albums.