Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Billboard
The 20 closest Music news and charts alternatives to Billboard, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 22 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Billboard? The closest matches are Forbes, Rolling Stone and Variety. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Billboard
Billboard billboard.com
Billboard – Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Music Charts, News, Photos & Video
Wikidata: American weekly music magazine
Summary by Claude
Billboard publishes music industry news, artist interviews, reviews and videos, and runs the Hot 100, Billboard 200, Global 200 and other music charts ranking popular songs and albums by sales, streaming and radio airplay.
- Who it’s for
- Music fans and music industry professionals
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Billboard’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Billboard
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Billboard, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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forbes.com
American business magazine
Very close cos 0.917 - 02
Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage
Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.
Very close cos 0.911 - 03
Variety - Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences
Entertainment news, film reviews, awards, film festivals, box office, entertainment industry conferences
Very close cos 0.912 - 04
fastcompany.com
American magazine
Very close cos 0.911 - 05
The Hollywood Reporter – Movie news, TV news, awards news, lifestyle news, business news and more from The Hollywood Reporter.
Movie news, TV news, awards news, lifestyle news, business news and more from The Hollywood Reporter.
Very close cos 0.908 - 06
ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide
ArchDaily, Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide: Architecture news, competitions and projects updated every hour for the architecture professional
Very close cos 0.905 - 07
Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
Very close cos 0.905 - 08
Page Six: Latest Celebrity News, Entertainment News & Gossip
Your source for the latest celebrity news, entertainment headlines and celeb gossip, with exclusive stories, photos, video, and more.
Very close cos 0.904 - 09
Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
Very close cos 0.903 - 10
New Movie News, Movie Trailers & Upcoming Movie Reviews | Collider
Stay up to date with new movie news, watch the latest movie trailers & get trusted reviews of upcoming movies & more from the team at Collider.
Very close cos 0.904 - 11
ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News
ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!
Very close cos 0.904 - 12
GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more...
GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information
Very close cos 0.902 - 13
Bleacher Report | Sports. Highlights. News. Now.
Fan easier, fan faster and fan better with Bleacher Report. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights and scores for all your favorite sports.
Very close cos 0.904 - 14
ADWEEK
Breaking News in Advertising, Media and Technology
Very close cos 0.900 - 15
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close cos 0.899 - 16
Online Songs on JioSaavn: Download & Play Latest Music for Free
Listen to Latest and Trending Bollywood Hindi songs online for free with JioSaavn anytime, anywhere. Download or listen to unlimited new & old Hindi songs online. Search from most trending, weekly top 15, Hindi movie songs, etc on JioSaavn.
Very close cos 0.898 - 17
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.900 - 18
British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)
Very close cos 0.899 - 19
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.901 - 20
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Meta Business Suite
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Very close cos 0.900
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to billboard.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Billboard uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Billboard is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Billboard adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Amazon Route 53 13/20
- Microsoft 365 12/20
- Google Analytics 11/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- Google Ad Manager 10/20
- OneTrust 10/20
- nginx 9/20
- PHP 9/20
- WordPress 9/20
- Google Workspace · not on billboard.com 9/20
- Comscore 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on billboard.com 7/20
- Amazon SES 7/20
- Atlassian 6/20