2. Circulation 40,203 (Jan-Jun '12)
Readership 387,000 (April–Sept '12)
Target audience: 16-25 year olds
Price: £2.20
It has its own awards evening: TV and Radio station and website.
They been on the shelves for 29 years and is now the biggest music weekly in the world
Mission statement
Kerrang! will ensure that we are constantly appealing to our spectrum of readers. From the younger teenage
readers who are more open to different genres of rock music – from emo to thrash etc, to the readers who
respect Kerrang! as an authority when it comes to our scene’s heritage bands. Each issue will include a balance
of bands and scenes to guarantee that we’re providing for our readers’ need for variety and their passionate
appetite for their favourite bands as well as their desire to be introduced to new music within our world. We
will focus on the BIGGEST things that are going on in our world each week, as well as guaranteeing that we are
giving our main base of younger readers everything they need to get into, on top of this the interest in
older, harder bands, cementing our role as an educator.
James McMahon - Editor
He began his career in 2002 as a freelance writer on NME and Metal Hammer, moving to become New Music
Editor at NME in March 2006 and Features Editor in 2007. In July 2010 he stepped across as Film Editor on
NME.com and moved to his current role in March 2011. Since July 2010, James has worked as a freelance
contributor for national newspapers, including The Daily Mirror, Guardian and magazines including X Factor
Magazine, Mixmag and NME. He’s also an Associate Lecturer in Popular Music Journalism at Solent University
in Southampton.
3.
4. Circulation figures are around 15,005 copies and a readership of around 23,027 people. This
is because it’s not as much in the public eye as kerrang is.
Ben Patashnik is the editor where he writes various articles for the publication every
month as well as certain articles on the website for Rocksound.
Target audience:- 15 - 24 year olds
Website: http://www.rock-sound.net
Address: Unit 22 Jack’s Place 6 Corbet Place Spitalfields London E1 6NN
Contact: Darren Taylor
Postion: Editor
Telephone: 020 7877 8770
Fax: 020 7377 0455
Email: darren.taylor@rock-sound.net
Preferred contact method:
Publisher: Rock Sound Ltd
Price: 3.60
Target audience:- 15 - 24 year olds
5. Q’s readership is around 378,000 people, an impressive figure for the middle class audience
Its been on shelves for 25 years where advertisers can use the trusted bands audience to sell
products
Price: is £3.90
They have their own radio station as of 2008 but it’s only availible on digital TV
They have they’re own music channel called Q TV
Circulation :103,017
Target audience: people in their 30's and 40's
Mission Statement
Q is the magazine that brings music alive. It draws together the biggest stars, the most exciting
phenomena, the new artists that matter and a healthy dose of irreverence to create an unmissable
widescreen picture of what’s really happening in rock and roll right now.
Every issue features agenda-setting star interviews, the month’s biggest moments in music, and
fascinating investigations into the wider world of rock and roll. Each month Q’s comprehensive
reviews section gives the last word on all the most important new releases and reissues – and feeds
Q’s readers’ hunger for new music to enjoy.
Q’s reviews section is the ultimate critical overview of music. And magazine’s unrivalled access brings
its readers up close and personal with the stars who set the agenda. Q is the ultimate rock and roll
read.
Andrew Harrison - Editor, Q Magazine
6. Mission Statement
At MOJO we cover the good stuff. Our award-winning editorial team prides itself in delivering a magazine that is
packed with insight, passion, and revelatory encounters with the greatest musicians of all-time, be they
established or emerging musicians. The magazine is loved by its readers and artists alike because it engages them
on the subject they love the most: music itself.
Every month MOJO brings you a definitive cover feature on an iconic act; a bespoke CD (especially compiled by
the editorial team or a major musician in MOJO's world); and our famous reviews section, the Filter, which brings
you 30 pages-plus of the best of that month's music, both classic and contemporary.
MOJO's previous guest editors range from David Bowie to Tom Waits via Noel Gallagher and the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, showcasing the magazine's breadth and iconic status among musicians. From The Beatles to The Black
Keys, from Led Zeppelin to Laura Marling, from Fleetwood Mac to Flying Lotus, MOJO is not only Britain's biggest
selling music magazine, it is an immersive experience. At MOJO we invite you to lose yourself in music every
month. Join us at www.mojo4music.com for a daily download of what's going on or to simply find out more about
our magazine.
Circulation: 114,183
Website: http://www.mojo4music.com No other music magazine can tell MOJO readers something they
Address: Mappin House 4 Winsley Street London W1W 8HF don’t know about the music it writes about. Because of this, their
Contact: Phil Alexander; Editor-in-Chief readers have high respect & trust for it
Telephone: 020 7436 1515
Fax: 020 7182 8596
Email: mojo@emap.com
Preferred contact method: Telephone
Publisher: Bauer Consumer Media
Price: £4.10
7.
8. Spin has a circulation of 462,310
Its a monthly magazine costing £4.50 per month meaning its aimed at the
middle class with a disposable income.
Published by Buzzmedia
Charles Aaron: Editorial Director
From our first issue...
This is the beginning, again. You are holding the rebirth of a magazine established over ten years ago by undergraduate writers and artists at
UIC. The landscape has changed significantly in the last decade. The Berlin Wall came down, "alternative" music became hip, the 70's were
exhumed to combat the forces of fashion evil (Michael Jackson leather jackets and "Flashdance" ripped up sweatshirts), a Democratic president
was elected, a Republican congress came into power, and I could go on.
As literary magazines go, Red Shoes Review was a dependably good publication, showcasing art and literature created by students. However, as
I look to the end of the century with trepidation, I see the need for a magazine that will stay abreast of its time. The beginning of a millennium is
ideal for visionary retrospection. I am forced to look back to see what is ahead. Consequently, an understanding of the cycles of human
experience are recalled for the sake of art.
As much as "red shoes" has been around since Hans Christian Andersen's story of the uncontrollable footwear and as a motif for the likes of
Moira Shearer, Kate Bush, and Elvis Costello, "still in spin" comes from as far in our past as the invention of the wheel. Perpetual angular
momentum has implications both technical and socially applicable. The illustrious past of the wheel runs the gamut of significance from the
creation of the Egyptian pyramids to mass transportation and traffic jams. The tradition is one of Ezekiel's wheel within a wheel and the
roulette, spinning to wealth or poverty. As they say, things are always coming full circle.
The spinning of a wheel, therefore, has a multifaceted connotation. Primarily, there is the spinning itself, which is movement with an inherent
direction that is cyclic. Being a cycle, there is an implicit permanence to the motion. The over-used "change is the only constant" is foundational
to the worldview that Still In Spin embodies. This magazine plans to capture the inquisitive spirit of youth and convert it into art by way of
showcasing works that seem most alive, resonating with vitality, irony, beauty or truth. Art that lasts has always been innovative and
demanding--and often, because of its novelty, disturbing. It challenges, asking new questions, reaching further than its predecessors.
A university setting is the ideal intellectual soil for the artistic curiosity and experimentation that transcends old boundaries and creates new
ones. An urban campus, particularly, can bring vastly different creators onto common ground for the purposes of a discourse by way of any
medium at their disposal. It is both the playground and workshop of the mind. To this end, Still In Spin invites those of you with a penchant for
adventure to join us on our romp and toil through the unknown . . . and beyond.
Christian Burk
Chicago, 1995
9.
10. 64% of buyers are male and 36% are female.
44%of readers tune into “Metal Hammer Riot” on an average of 2 hours
and 46 minutes per week and 46% of readers also play the guitar.
45% of people that read this magazine partake in some sort of musical
activity at home for pleasure.
59% of readers discuss an article with another person
Editor: Alexander Milas
Main audience: 18-19 year olds
Circulation: 48,977
Website: http://www.metalhammer.co.uk
Address: 2 Balcombe Street London NW1 6NW
Contact: Jamie Hibbard
Postion: Editor
Telephone: 020 7042 4000
Email: jamie.hibbert@futurenet.co.uk
Preferred contact method: Telephone
Publisher: Future Entertainment
Price: 3.99
11. Circulation: 28,354
Website: http://www.futurenet.com
Address: Beauford Court 30 Monmouth Street Bath BA1 2BW
Contact: Mike Leonard ;Editor
Telephone: 0122 544 2244
Fax: 0122 548 2463
Email: guitarist@futurenet.co.uk
Preferred contact method: Telephone
Publisher: Future Entertainment
Price: 5.25
Has been in shops since 1984. it’s the longest running guitar magazine in Europe.
Published every month.
Writes about Alternative rock & Heavy metal.
Total circulation: 2008 - 31,917
Total circulation: 2009 - 30,539
12. Circulation: 42,235
Website: http://www.mixmag.net
Address: 90-92 Pentonville Road Islington
London N1 9HS
Contact:Nick Decosemo ;editor
Telephone: 020 7520 8625
Fax: 020 7520 8609
Email: pauline@mixmag.net
Publisher: Development Hell Ltd
Price: 3.85
First Issue- 1st February 1983
13. Circulation of 70,000+ copies a month.
This is bigger than NME, Kerrang! and Metal hammer
Circulation: 62,699
Website: http://www.futurenet.com
Address: 2 Balcombe Street London NW1 6NW
Contact: Sian Llewellyn; Editor
Telephone: 020 7042 4000
Fax: 020 7042 4473
Email: sian.llewellyn@futurenet.co.uk
Preferred contact method: Telephone
Publisher: Future Entertainment
Price: 4.25
14. Circulation: 10,866
Website: http://www.futurenet.com
Address: Beauford Court 30 Monmouth Street Bath BA1
2BW
Contact: Louise King ; Editor
Telephone: 01225 442 244
Fax: 01225 446 019
Email: louise.king@futurenet.co.uk
Preferred contact method: Telephone
Publisher: Future Entertainment
Price: 4.50
15. Circulation: 15,046
Website: http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/
Address: Suite 6 Picadilly House London Road Bath BA1 6PL
Contact: Neil Worley; Editor
Telephone: 01225 489 984
Fax: 01225 489 980
Email: neil.worley@anthem-publishing.com
Preferred contact method: Email
Publisher: Anthem Publishing
Price: £7.00
16. Circulation: 18,000
Website: http://www.soundonsound.com
Address: Media House Trafalgar Way Bar Hill Cambridge CB3 8SQ
Contact: Paul White ;Editor
Telephone: 01945 789 888
Fax: 01945 789 895
Email: editor@militarymodelling.com
Publisher: Sound On Sound Ltd
Price: £4.99
17. Magazine Publisher Other Magazines Published
Kerrang Bauer Media Group Q, MOJO, Heat, Empire, Golf World
Big cheese Big Cheese Publishing Ltd. N/A
Rocksound Freeway Press inc. N/A
Metal Hammer Future Publishing Guitarist, Gamesmaster, total film, Rhythm
Q Bauer Media Group MOJO, Kerrang, Heat, Empire, Golf World
NME IPC Media (Time Inc.) Whats on TV, Nuts, Sports Illustrated
Total Guitar Future Publishing Guitarist, Classic Rock, Gamesmaster, Total Film, Rhythm
Guitarist Future Publishing Gamesmaster, Total Film, Rhythm, Total Guitar
MixMag Development Hell Ltd N/A
Wire The Wire Magazine Ltd. N/A
Spin Buzzmedia N/A but buzzmedia owns websites such as Buzznet, Idolator, and Stereogum
Rhythm Future Publishing Gamesmaster, Total Film, Rhythm, Total Guitar, Guitarist
MOJO Bauer Media Group Q, MOJO, Heat, Empire, Golf World, Kerrang
Classic Rock Future Publishing Gamesmaster, Total Film, Rhythm, Total Guitar, Guitarist, metal hammer
Rhythm Future Publishing Gamesmaster, Total Film, Classic rock, Total Guitar, Guitarist, metal hammer
Music Tech Anthem Publishing Music Tech Magazine,Italia! , Calcio Italia, Sporting Legend, Taste Italia ,Guitar &
Bass, Food Heaven
Sound on Sound SOS Publications Group N/A
