Billboard is a weekly American magazine about music charts that has been published since 1894. It targets young music fans and professionals. The magazine is owned by Prometheus Global Media and costs $6.99 per issue. It features articles about chart music split into sections, along with charts and artist profiles accompanied by large images.

1. Case Study Magazine
Billboard

2. Billboard
Billboard is a weekly magazine about
chart music. Its target audience is
young people both male and female.
It is mainly aimed at music
professionals but is also available for
music fans to buy.
Billboard magazine is owned by
Prometheus Global Media and has
been running since 1894. It is an
American magazine and costs $6.99
(£4.36). The editor is Danyel Smith.

3. Main image medium close up
Cover Page
with body facing away but face
towards the camera maintaining
eye contact with the reader
Related web
addresses Feature titles are
in black text on a
One cover line in white
yellow to stand out background so
they still stand
Issue information out on the
in bottom left patterned
corner above the background
barcode
Masthead
All cover lines across the top
written in capitals
Patterned background
Simple colour
scheme of black Artists name in
and white text large bold font
and red in the followed by a quote
image and from the interview
background

4. Contents Page
Title in top right
hand corner of
page
Blue text to
highlight feature
titles and web
3 images under
addresses and
the title with their
blue lines to
relevant page
separate the
numbers in the
different sections
bottom right
corner of each
Articles split in to
Main image not
sections; “Up Front”,
within a box and
“Features”, “Music “and
placed along the
“In Every Issue”
right hand side of
the page
Information on online
content and events at the
bottom of the page Issue information
in small font
List of charts (main focus of the under the title
magazine) at the right hand
side of the page in 2 columns Date, website and page
with their corresponding page number in bottom right
numbers Text in columns corner

5. Double Page Spread
Introduction under the title
followed by the main text
arranged in two columns
Play on
Image filling the words –
whole of the left artists name
page is used as
part of the
title
Title filling the
top half of the
right page
Coloured
circles of
Brief introduction different
to the artist in a sizes around
circle next to the the title and
title overlapping
text
Date, website and page Mainly black used but small
number in the bottom The writer and
amounts of colour used by the photographers name
right corner circles and to highlight the web under the title (writers
address and writers name name highlighted in blue)

6. Influence on My Magazine
In my magazine I will imitate some features of
billboard magazine.
• Large image filling all or most of the right side
of the double page spread
• Articles split in to different sections on the
contents page
• Cover stars name as the largest cover line
• An image not in a box on the contents page