Cash Box  is a defunct music industry trade magazine that was published weekly from July 1942 to November 1996.  It has since been revived, as Cashbox Magazine, as an online-only weekly that occasionally publishes special print issues.  Cash Box was one of several magazines that published record charts in the United States.  Its most prominent competitors were Billboard and Record World (known as Music Vendor prior to April 1964).  Unlike Billboard, Cash Box initially combined all currently available recordings of a song into one chart position with artist and label information shown for each version, alphabetized by label.  Originally, no indication of which version was the biggest seller was given; but from October 25, 1952, a star was placed next to the names of the most important artists.  Cash Box also printed shorter jukebox charts which included specific artist data beginning in the spring of 1950.  (More from Wikipedia)