BILLBOARD

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Billboard Information Group is a unit of VNU Business Media, the world's leading provider of media and entertainment information. With Nielsen BDS and Soundscan, VNU measures audiences for television, motion pictures, radio, print, the Internet, and other major media; tracks CD, video, DVD and book sales, and monitors where and how advertising money is being spent. In the United States and Europe, VNU delivers news and vital information through trade publications, trade shows and websites. VNU employs 38,000 people worldwide, and is active in more than 100 countries. Approximately half of its US $5 billion in total revenues is generated in North America.