Radio & Records

Radio & Records (current R&R) was a weekly music trader magazine that followed the radio industry and observed the monitoring of contemporary songs by format, station and audience. The "Radio & Records" was a sister publication to Billboard and was mostly available with subscription to people who work in the radio industry and music chart fans, just as different record stores and newsstands. On June 5, 2009, base company AC Nielsen stopped operations activities on R&R just about three years after gaining the former independent trade.

R&R was a renewed variant of two different magazines: "Billboard Radio Monitor" and "Radio & Records", the latter where the "R&R" name was taken over as the trade's "new" name. The move was a result of a mergence between the 'original' "R&R" and "Radio Monitor" after VNU Media bought "Radio & Records" on July 6, 2006.

On July 14, 2006, Billboard Radio Monitor, which initially started out in 1993 as "Airplay Monitor", stopped publicating with its final issue, while "Radio & Records", which first started in 1973, published its last edition as an independent trade on August 4, 2006. Its first publication under the newly renamed "R&R" was August 11, 2006, beginning with the official monitored BDS charts ending the week of August 6, 2006.

Among the attributes and articles that emerged in R&R, there were one for every format, "Street Talk" (which kept track on the latest buzz in the radio industry), and daily news from radio and record industry generally. These attributes were taken from Radio & Records.

It also featured the latest weekly BDS music charts and chart data information. These features were taken from Billboard Radio Monitor, but it also contained the addition of guides for non-monitored radio markets and Canadian chart airplay that was part of R&R. The overlapping of radio station reporters and format criteria from the former Monitor and R&R were modified in the new R&R.