Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, better known as BDS, is a service that tracks monitored radio, television and internet airplay of songs based on the number of spins and detections. The service, which is a subsidiary of ACNielsen provides the basis for VNU Media publications Billboard, R&R and Canadian Music Network (discontinued in 2005; now a website) magazines in determining their radio airplay music charts and determines the chart movement in Billboard's Hot 100 chart when combined with single sales from Nielsen SoundScan. ACNielsen is a global Marketing research firm with worldwide headquarters in New York City. See Billboard (Turkish magazine Billboard is a weekly American Magazine devoted to the Music industry R&R (also known as the "new" Radio & Records) is a weekly music trade publication that follows the radio industry and tracks the monitoring of current songs Nielsen SoundScan is an information system created by Mike Fine and Mike Shalett that tracks sales of music and music video products throughout the United States and Canada
Using a patented digital pattern recognition technology, Nielsen BDS captures in excess of 100 million song detections annually on more than 1,400 radio stations in over 130 U.S. markets (including Puerto Rico) and 22 Canadian markets. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Puerto Rico (ˌpwertoˈriko officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" {{lang-en|"Associated Free State of Puerto Rico"}} Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Nielsen BDS also uses the service to track monitored airplay at satellite radio (XM and Sirius), internet services (like Yahoo! and AOL) and audio networks (like Music Choice and Radio Disney), as well as on TV (12 U. Music Choice is a US company that programs music and produces music-related content for digital cable cell phones and cable modem subscribers in the US Radio Disney is a radio network based in Dallas Texas in the United States broadcasting music and other content targeted at Children and young S. music video channels and 8 Canadian video channels). A music video is a Short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music most commonly a Song with lyrics
Since its 1992 debut, BDS has become the standard for the radio and music industry because of its accuracy of detecting, tracking and monitoring songs, thus eliminating the use of reporting and call-outs to trades and record labels when it comes to adding and testing tracks. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1992 The method has also helped tracks that only received airplay(songs that are not released as singles) become major hits, especially in Billboard's Hot 100 chart, where several radio-only tracks have reached the top spot.
BDS helps determine the Canadian BDS Airplay Chart, which is published by Jam!. Jam! is a Canadian website which covers entertainment news It is part of the CANOE online portal owned and operated by Quebecor through its Sun