Less print issues of Billboard now

[donwa001]

Back in the 70's, 80's and 90's, you would get 51 print issues a year for Billboard.

The only week skipped was the last week of the year when Billboard published their Year End issue.

Those were the good old days, I guess.

Looking at the most recent copy of Billboard (Nov 11th), here is their publication schedule:

"Published weekly except for two issues in January, March, May, July, August, September, and November; three issues in February, April, June, October and December"

If you do the math:

(2 issues times 7 months) + (3 issues times 5 months) = 14 + 15 = 29 issues total

52 weeks minus 29 issues = 23 weeks with no print issue (almost half a year).

When Record Research creates their DVD of HOT 100 charts for the 2010 decade, they will need to add in a lot of missing weeks of Billboard.

[mitchm]

I received a subscription invite in the mail this past week for two years for $169.37, which is $2.57 per issue according to Billboard. That divides out to 66 issues or 33 per year. My check is not in the mail.

[paulhaney]

No surprise that they are printing fewer and fewer issues every year. I'd imagine most of their readers get their info through the website nowadays.