The magazine cover features Beyoncé wearing a pink dress to appeal to female audiences and convey femininity. Her seductive expression also aims to attract male viewers. The large font highlighting her name and the reference to her song "Run the World" position her as a powerful, independent woman. Overall, the magazine designers employ stylistic conventions and Beyoncé's popularity to entice readers to buy the issue.

1. Magazine cover analysis

2. The magazine shows Beyoncé on the cover of the magazine, this entices the audience to buy the magazine
because they recognise her as a popular and well-known artist. She is shown wearing a pink dress. This enhances
her femininity and is a colour which is stereotypically known to attract a female audience. She displays a very
seductive expression which also entices the male audience. She camera shot is shown from a slightly low angle
which shows Beyoncé as a powerful and dominant woman.
The name ‘Beyoncé’ is
shown in a large font size
to express the
importance of the article
and how the woman on
the cover is featured in
the magazine. The
heading for the article’
back to run the world’
refers directly to a
popular song of hers ‘run
the world’ this shows
Beyoncé as an
independent woman
which is also reinforced
in the quotation “no one
can define me”
The master head showing the
title ‘billboard’ is shown in a
bold simple font to make it
stand out to the reader. The
spaces in the header are filled
with bright colours such as
blue, yellow and green. This
makes the title stand out from
the rest of the magazine cover.
The header is also set behind
the main image cutting off
some of the letters, this is so
the full image can be
displayed on the cover and
well-known magazines like
billboard don’t need to show
the full title for people to
know the brand.
On the cover there is an
advertisement for the
‘billboard music awards’ this
is in a black box to make it
contrast with the rest of the
colours and stand out from
the rest of the page.
This magazine breaks the
conventions of the colour
scheme of a usual R&B
magazine as they normally use
a darker colour palette such as
greys, black and dark blues
however this uses pink as the
main colour. The colour white is
used to link to Beyoncé’s
honest and pure representation
The cover lines are
justified which follows
the conventions of a
magazine cover.

3. This magazine follows
most of the
conventions of a
music magazine. This
front cover has a
blue/black colour
scheme with blue and
white text. The font of
the magazine title
“Billboard” keeps to
the house style of the
magazine.
Billboard magazine
uses Beyoncé as the
artist on the
magazine cover
because she is a
well-known, popular
artist. Seeing her on
the cover will
encourage people to
buy the magazine to
read the article
about her.
The magazine follows
conventions of a typical
magazine by having the title
“billboard” placed behind the
image. This shows that that
the magazine is also popular
and well-known because it
does not need the show the
whole title for people to
know what magazine it is.
The magazine cover
shows a website
which readers can
visit to find out more
information.