Cashbox (magazine)

Cashbox (also: Cash Box ) was a weekly music trade magazine, published from July 1942 to 16 November 1996. Meanwhile, the magazine was revived as an online edition.

Cashbox was one of the publications, prepared the lists of popular songs in the United States. The most prominent competitors were Billboard and Record World.

Unlike Billboard Cashbox had originally brought all available recordings of a song in a chart position, provided with information about the individual artists and issuing labels for each version and sorted alphabetically by company. Therefore, initially was not clear which recording had been sold at best, but from the issue of 25 October 1952 star next to the names of major artists has been set. Cashbox published in spring 1950 Jukebox charts with information about the recording artists.

There were different hit lists out, namely on record sales and radio airplay - much as billboard with his Billboard Hot 100 made ​​, which have attempted to represent all popularity ratings at the end in a summary list. In addition, led by Cashbox yet genre -oriented lists, for example for country music and R & B.

Cashbox was revived in 2006 with the approval and support of the family of the founder, George Albert as an Internet magazine and are occasionally printed special editions out.