Cashbox magazine was a weekly publication devoted to the music and coin-operated machine industries in the USA which was published from July 1942 to November 16, 1996. It has since been revived as an online only weekly which occasionally publishes special issues.

It was one of several magazines that published charts

Record chart

A record chart is a ranking of recorded music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....

 of song popularity in the United States of America. Cashbox's most prominent competitors included Billboard and Record World

Record World

Record World magazine was one of the three main music industry trade publications in the United States, along with Billboard and Cash Box magazines. It was founded in 1946 under the name Music Vendor, but since 1964 changed it to Record World, under the ownership of Sid Parnes and Bob Austin, both...

(known as Music Vendor prior to the April 18, 1964, issue).