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Billboard
Who runs Billboard, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest Music news and charts alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Rolling Stone
Measured from Billboard’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Billboard01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Billboard
Billboard billboard.com
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Wikidata: American weekly music magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Billboard tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
15 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 8 tools
- EU company
- 1 tool
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Session recording
Records clicks, scrolling and typing so the company can replay visits.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Billboard
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Billboard, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Very close - 02
NME | Music, Film, TV, Gaming & Pop Culture News
NME brings you the latest music and pop culture news and reviews, along with videos and galleries, band features, concert tickets, magazine, radio and more.
Very close - 03
Official Charts - Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts | Official Charts
The only place you can access the definitive Official Singles and Official Albums Chart Top 100 in full, as heard on BBC Radio 1. Plus official charts for Dance, Rock, Hip-Hop, Vinyl, Streaming, Country, Classical, Afrobeats and more.
Very close - 04
Pitchfork | The Most Trusted Voice in Music. | Pitchfork
The Most Trusted Voice in Music.
Very close - 05
Featured Content on Myspace
Featured Content on Myspace
Very close - 06
Billboard JAPAN
米国で最も権威のある音楽チャート・Billboard（ビルボード）の日本公式サイト。洋楽チャート、邦楽チャート、音楽ニュース、プレゼント情報などを提供。
Very close - 07 Spin spin.com
American music magazine
Very close - 08
Consequence | Music, Movie, TV and Pop Culture News for the Mainstream and Underground
Consequence is your source for breaking news about music, film, and TV, plus daily reviews, exclusive interviews, original videos, and more.
Very close - 09
Variety - Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences
Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences
Very close - 10
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 11
オリコンニュース（ORICON NEWS）｜最新情報を発信する総合トレンドメディア
芸能・音楽・ランキングなどオリコンならではのエンタメ情報はもちろん、信頼できる媒体の信頼できる情報を幅広いジャンルにわたり提供する総合トレンドメディア
Very close - 12
VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.
VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.
Very close - 13
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close - 14
American business magazine
Very close - 15
BARKS | アーティストの新曲・動画・ライブ・コンサート情報をお届けする音楽メディア
アーティストの新曲・動画・ライブ・コンサート情報をお届けする音楽メディア
Very close - 16
Celebrity News | Entertainment News | TMZ.com
Breaking the biggest stories in celebrity and entertainment news. Get exclusive access to the latest stories, photos, and video as only TMZ can.
Very close - 17
TheWrap - Your trusted source for entertainment breaking news
Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment news and analysis.
Very close - 18 IndieWire indiewire.com
film industry and review website
Very close - 19
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
CNBC International is the world leader for news on business, technology, China, trade, oil prices, the Middle East and markets.
Very close - 20
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Billboard’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Billboard uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Billboard adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 22 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 38 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Billboard’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11
- Ecommerce
- Shopify page source: cdn.shopify.com/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.billboard.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Hotjar page source: static.hotjar.com
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Google Ad Manager page source: googletag.pubads()
- Google Ads conversion tracking page source: gtag( 'config', 'AW-
- LinkedIn Insight Tag page source: snap.licdn.com/li.lms-analytics
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.9.11)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX billboard-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.braintreegatewa…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1447.awsdns-52.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=F0CeOVaeAhJiBw4gNcDF99llOk0L6U5l1fyHjIA…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=hTYBXUqHqEgwnFgz9DpFuF7u8h6DLV8nHoQIM92unF4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=srzvw69os3glls3v9qbuc1ubqdpb7l
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 13/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- nginx 10/20
- PHP 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- WordPress 10/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on billboard.com 9/20
- Adobe · not on billboard.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager 8/20
- jQuery 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on billboard.com 7/20
- Google Analytics 7/20
- Amazon SES 6/20