'Billboard' aims to be one-stop shop for listening, shopping - USATODAY.com

Competition to create the digital world's leading destination for music fans intensifies as Billboard joins the fray Wednesday with a revamped website for pop music enthusiasts.

The effort pits the 115-year-old trade publication — owned by Nielsen — against rivals including AOL, Clear Channel, MySpace and Yahoo. Billboard says it has an edge because its site, for the first time, will allow all visitors, not just subscribers, to look at Billboard's weekly sales lists from the past 51 years...