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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.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Billboard

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Music Charts, News, Photos &amp; 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.
- HotjarEU
Visitor analytics

Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager

Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Adobe FontsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Billboard

Fewer trackers than Billboard No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Billboard match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 22 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,215
Vector: 384-d
Query: 36 ms

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.