1. Q magazine’s genre of music is popular music because it show
a variety of genres. It includes artists such as ‘Adele’, ‘Florence
and the Machine’, ‘Jay-Z’ and ‘Oasis’. The content of Q
magazine features interviews from artists, the latest updates,
columns and playlists. This is conventional to a typical music
magazine as this is the normal content that is featured in a
music magazine. Q magazine’s target audience:
From above you can see that it is mainly targeted towards men
that are in the ABC1 and are in the 15-24 category. Q magazine’s
publisher is the Bauer Media Group.
2. The genre of music for Kerrang magazine is surrounded around
rock, metal and pop-punk which is conventional to music
magazines of this genre. The content of Kerrang magazine features
the latest updates from bands such as ‘My Chemical Romance’,
‘Bring Me The Horizon’, ‘Foo Fighters’ and ‘Iron Maiden’. This is
conventional to a typical music magazine as the content usually
feature many artist to satisfy the target audience. Kerrang
magazine’s target audience is:
As you can see it is mainly target at the male leaning
audience who are in the ABC1 category who are also
mainly aged 15-24. The Publisher for Kerrang
magazine is Bauer Media Group which is
conventional with Q magazine.
3. The Top of the Pop’s magazine’s genre is pop music. The content of Top
of the Pops features the latest updates, interviews, quizzes, song lyrics,
fashion trends and posters which is conventional with a typical music
magazine. Some of the artists it includes are ‘Katy Perry’, ‘Justin Beiber’,
‘One Direction’, ‘The Vamps’ and ‘5SOS’. The magazine also features
celebrities that are not involved in music like Zac Efron which is
unconventional with a typical music magazine. Top of the Pops target
audience is 85% females, aged 12, who are in the ABC1 category. The
Top of the Pops magazine is published monthly by Immediate Media
Immediate Company.