Billboard.com is the Internet arm of Billboard magazine, the world's premier music publication. In addition to a dedicated editorial staff, the site draws upon the vast experience and expertise of the publication's worldwide staff and correspondents to offer news, features, columns and reviews to provide the Internet's most-trusted music information.

Every Thursday, dozens of the Billboard magazine's famous charts of U.S. sales, airplay, downloads and box office grosses are previewed for the public consumption and exploration.

Access to complete version and the full breadth of Billboard's charts is available to subscribers via Billboard.Biz, which also provides breaking news in the music and entertainment industries. Billboard.biz also houses all of the articles printed in each week's magazine, a database of all Billboard articles, reviews, features and special reports dating back to 1991, as well as weekly album, singles and video charts dating back to 1984 and year-end charts dating back to 1946.

Billboard magazine has served the information needs of the entertainment business since 1894. A brief history of Billboard can be found here.

Billboard is the flagship property for the Billboard Information Group, which also consists of Billboard.biz, Billboard.com, Billboard Chart Alert, Billboard Information Network (BIN), Billboard Directories, Billboard Licensing & Events and Billboard Radio Monitor. Billboard's many strategic partners include Fox-TV, Microsoft, mForma, Reuters, Sirius Satellite Radio, Telemundo, Univision Radio, ABC Radio Networks, Azteca America and Billboard sister companies Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.

Billboard is headquartered in New York with bureaus in Boston, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and Washington, D.C., and has editorial correspondents in major cities around the globe. The Group is a unit of VNU Business Media, a worldwide media company that provides specialized publications, electronically delivered data, expositions and marketing services and is owned by VNU Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Netherlands-based VNU, an international publishing and information company.

Staff Bios:
Jonathan Cohen News/Reviews Editor - Billboard.com jacohen@billboard.com Jonathan grew up in Akron, Ohio, where by age three he was playing several instruments and absorbing all types of music. The Indiana University graduate has anchored Billboard.com's news and reviews section since late 1999 while also contributing regular artist features to Billboard magazine. In the spring of 2005, he took on the additional responsibility of editing the magazine's album reviews page.
Katie Hasty Associate Editor - Billboard.com khasty@billboard.com Katie joined the Billboard team in the summer of 2004 after graduating from Northwestern University. A native Kansan, Katie freelanced for a variety of publications three years prior to her hire at Billboard Radio Monitor magazine as online editor. She joined Billboard.com in August 2005.
Tamara Conniff Executive Editor and Associate Publisher Billboard Information Group Tamara oversees Billboard's print and online editorial and design teams as well as the magazine's industry events. Before joining Billboard in August 2004, she served as the music editor for The Hollywood Reporter and a senior editor for Amusement Business. The daughter of Ray Conniff, Tamara was born and raised in Hollywood, and has written for many publications, including Music Connection, Seconds, The Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe.

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