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Introduce the American bill board ranking.
Billboard introduction

Billboard magazine in the United States will make an annual summary at the end of each year, taking stock of the year-end final ranking of the magazine's major rankings, mainly based on the neutral statistics of album market sales and the number of times that singles are played and requested in radio, television, internet and other media. Becoming the champion of major albums and singles at the end of the year has long been one of the most important honors for singers.

Every year, Billboard's list is divided into album list, Hot 100 single list, and other personal lists.

1 894165438+1October1Sunday, in a pub in Cincinnati, Ohio, two young men, William, designed billboards for circuses and exhibitions. William h Donaldson and James. When James F. Henningham got up after drinking, he had the idea of running a publication, and Billboard was born. However, at that time, it was also called "billboard advertisement". This monthly magazine has only eight pages, and the price is 10 cents. The content is mainly about national affairs, carnival festivals and entertainment performances.

From 65438 to 0897, the magazine changed its name to Billboard and made a series of adjustments. Donaldson bought Henningham's shares, turned the monthly magazine into a weekly magazine, and set up offices in new york and Chicago. The content of magazines is becoming more and more entertaining: news advertisements, film introductions, song reviews, column areas and so on are added in the record industry. It was not until 19 13 that Billboard appeared the first list of "Top Ten Popular Songs of Last Week" and became the first magazine with a list.

In the next few decades, Billboard has set up various charts: last week's pop songs in theaters, jukebox charts, pop songs sales charts, radio's most popular songs charts, record sales charts and so on. Among these rankings, most of them are inaccurate, provided by record companies or have little influence on the target communication channels.

In the 1940s, Billboard made adjustments, and launched the most frequently played songs on jukeboxes, songs played by radio DJs, album sales charts, single sales charts and other lists. These lists are very similar to today's Billboard, and the magazine itself has become a professional pop music ranking magazine. After 1954, Billboard has taken control of the whole American pop music industry, including the professional authority of list information and ranking statistics of various popular projects. From July 9, 65438 to August 27, 0955, bill haley's "Rock Around the Clock" topped the Billboard single sales list for eight consecutive weeks, announcing the beginning of the rock era.

On June165438+1October 12 of the same year, Billboard launched the first comprehensive song sales and most frequently played list on jukebox. On August 4th, 1958, the previous 100 was renamed as1hot. Although it took three years to shape, people still set its birth date as1955165438+10/2.

Since then, Billboard has been developing steadily, dominating the American music scene, and constantly improving and innovating: changing its name to "Billboard", appearing the cover, improving the statistical method, and renaming the album list to Billboard 200. This year, Billboard also launched the Pop 100 single list, ranking in the top 40 compared with the hot 100.

It took11year to get such a heavy, eye-catching and authoritative bulletin board.