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Billboard

Billboard is a long-running American periodical covering the entertainment industry. In recent years, it primarily has covered the music industry, but it covered other areas in the past. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

Publication History

Billboard began in 1894 as "Billboard Advertising" (and covered the bill-posting industry originally). The name shortened to "The Billboard" in 1897, as the magazine was shifting to covering entertainment. Later the name shortened further to "Billboard". The first copyright-renewed issue is October 7, 1939 (v. 51 no. 40). We know of no actively copyright-renewed contributions. (More details) It is still published today.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

1894: The Internet Archive has volume 1, number 1, dated November 1, 1894, scanned from microfilm. Some material is cut off or obscured in the scan.
1894: The Internet Archive has volume 1, number 2, dated December 1, 1894.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 2, number 3, dated January 1, 1895. (Since this periodical was a monthly at the time, the issue numbering for this volume appears to carry over from the first volume.)
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 2, number 4, dated February 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 2, number 5, dated March 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 3, number 6, dated April 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 3, number 7, dated May 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 3, number 8, dated June 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 3, number 9, dated July 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 3, number 10, dated August 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 4, number "ii", dated September 1, 1895. (We are not sure if the number here is meant to be "11", or "2" in Roman numerals. In any case, we are not aware of a number 1 in this volume.)
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 4, number 3, dated October 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 4, number 4, dated November 1, 1895.
1895: The Internet Archive has volume 4, number 4, dated December 1, 1895. (This is the second issue with that numbering, which may be intended to normalize the numbering in this volume, in which this is the fourth issue.)
1896: The Internet Archive has volume 5, covering January through June 1896.
1896: The Internet Archive has July-December 1896 issues, which are numbered idiosyncratically.
1897: The Internet Archive has January-June 1897 issues. The February 1897 issue is the first to be titled "The Billboard" instead of "Billboard Advertising".
1897: The Internet Archive has volume 9, numbers 6-11, covering July through December 1897.
1898: The Internet Archive has volume 10, numbers 1-6, covering January-June 1898.
1898: The Internet Archive has volume 10, numbers 7-12, covering July-December 1898.
1899: The Internet Archive has volume 11, numbers 1-6, covering January-June 1899.
1899: The Internet Archive has July-December 1899 issues.
1900: The Internet Archive has January-June 1900 issues.
1900-1901: The Internet Archive has most of volume 12, covering May 1900 through December 1901, scanned from microfilm. The July 14 issue is missing.
1902: The Internet Archive has volume 14, scanned from microfilm.
1903: The Internet Archive has volume 15, scanned from microfilm.
1904: The Internet Archive has volume 16, scanned from microfilm.
1905: The Internet Archive has volume 17, scanned from microfilm.
1906: The Internet Archive has volume 18, scanned from microfilm.
1907: The Internet Archive has volume 19, scanned from microfilm.
1907-1908, 1917: HathiTrust has issues from volumes 19, 20, and 29. Some later volumes are searchable but not readable here.
1908: The Internet Archive has volume 20, scanned from microfilm.
1909: The Internet Archive has volume 21, scanned from microfilm.
1910: The Internet Archive has volume 22, scanned from microfilm.
1911: The Internet Archive has volume 23, scanned from microfilm.
1912: The Internet Archive has volume 24, scanned from microfilm.
1913: The Internet Archive has volume 25, scanned from microfilm.
1914: The Internet Archive has volume 26, scanned from microfilm.
1915: The Internet Archive has volume 27, scanned from microfilm.
1916: The Internet Archive has volume 28, scanned from microfilm.
1917: The Internet Archive has volume 29, scanned from microfilm.
1918: The Internet Archive has volume 30, scanned from microfilm.
1919: The Internet Archive has volume 31, scanned from microfilm.
1920: The Internet Archive has volume 32, scanned from microfilm.
1921: The Internet Archive has volume 33, scanned from microfilm.
1922: The Internet Archive has volume 34, scanned from microfilm.
1923: The Internet Archive has volume 35, scanned from microfilm.
1924: The Internet Archive has volume 36, scanned from microfilm.
1925: The Internet Archive has volume 37, scanned from microfilm.
1926-1929: HathiTrust has volumes 38-40 and the first two months of volume 41 freely readable online. Access to some scans may be restricted outside the United States. Some later volumes may be searchable but not readable online here.
1926: The Internet Archive has volume 38, scanned from microfilm.
1927: The Internet Archive has volume 39, scanned from microfilm.
1928: The Internet Archive has volume 40, scanned from microfilm.
1942-2011: Google Books has most issues from 1942 to 2011.

Official Site / Current Material

The Billboard web site has more information about the magazine, and recent music industry news.

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