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

Top 10K · #3,265 English 22 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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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

FortuneAdweekHarvard Business ReviewPage SixArchDailyThe Hollywood ReporterFast CompanyVarietyRolling StoneForbes

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Billboard

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Billboard, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Forbes forbes.com Top 1K English

    forbes.com

    American business magazine

  2. 02
    Rolling Stone rollingstone.com Top 10K English

    Rolling Stone – Music, Film, TV and Political News Coverage

    Get the latest Rolling Stone news with exclusive stories and pictures from Rolling Stone.

  3. 03
    Variety variety.com Top 10K English

    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

  4. 04
    Fast Company fastcompany.com Top 10K English

    fastcompany.com

    American magazine

  5. 05
    The Hollywood Reporter hollywoodreporter.com Top 10K English

    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.

  6. 06
    ArchDaily archdaily.com Top 10K English

    ArchDaily | Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide

    ArchDaily, Broadcasting Architecture Worldwide: Architecture news, competitions and projects updated every hour for the architecture professional

  7. 07
    Bored Panda boredpanda.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    Page Six pagesix.com Top 10K English

    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.

  9. 09
    Harvard Business Review hbr.org Top 1K English

    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.

  10. 10
    Collider collider.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    ScreenRant screenrant.com Top 10K English

    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!

  12. 12
    GSMArena.com gsmarena.com Top 10K English

    GSMArena.com - mobile phone reviews, news, specifications and more...

    GSMArena.com - The ultimate resource for GSM handset information

  13. 13
    Bleacher Report bleacherreport.com Top 10K English

    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.

  14. 14
    Adweek adweek.com Top 10K English

    ADWEEK

    Breaking News in Advertising, Media and Technology

  15. 15
    Fortune fortune.com Top 10K English

    Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News

    Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.

  16. 16
    JioSaavn jiosaavn.com Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    Lifehacker lifehacker.com Top 10K English

    Lifehacker | Do everything better

    Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.

  18. 18
    The Economist economist.com Top 10K English

    British weekly news and international affairs publication (founded 1843)

  19. 19
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

  20. 20
    International Business Times ibtimes.com Top 10K English

    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.

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
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
Analytics
Tag managers
Advertising
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
Email delivery
  • Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf.braintreegatewa…
DNS hosting
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

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