History on music magazines

The billboard

Billboard was founded in Cincinnati on November 1 in 1894, by William h. Originally titled Billboard Advertising it was a trade paper for the bill posting industry, hence the magazine's name.Within a few years of its founding, it began to carry news of outdoor amusements, a major consumer of billboard space. The magazine began coverage of motion pictures in 1909 and of radio in the 1920s. Billboard is an international news weekly magazine faithful to music and the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world as it was first published in 1896 two years after it was first found.






From 1896 to 2012 Billboard has changed considerably from the text to the images used, the style of writing has changed as it is now bolder and clearer to read. The image used has gone from a pixie to a artist in the charts which makes it seem more like a music magazine rather than a normal magazine or book. However the colour red has stayed the same throughout the years.