media coursework

1. UK MUSIC MAGAZINE

2. UK MUSIC MAGAZINES
Music magazines
available in the UK

3.  Kerrang! is the worlds biggest rock music magazine. Based in the Uk, it has published 1647
issues since its first issue in 6 June 1981, when it was first founded by Alan Lewis. Kerrang!
Is published by Bauer Media Group (who are based in Hamburg) in 2008. Kerrang! Is a weekly
magazine that foremost focus on younger people and the newer rock bands.
Kerrang!
BAUER MEDIA
Circulation: 24,207

4. KERRANG MISSION STATEMENT
Kerrang! is the most exciting youth culture brand in existence. We’re everywhere our audience lives. Founded
thirty-four years ago, an event that was as seismic as events go within the publishing industry, let alone music,
today we’re a magazine, yes, but we’re also an radio station, a TV channel, we’re on tablet, we’re mobile, a
social behemoth, we’re an awards ceremony and we’re a tour. Where young people go to be thrilled by loud
sounds, it’s most likely Kerrang! is there too.
We’re Metallica’s favourite music magazine. The home of Iron Maiden exclusives. The magazine that broke My
Chemical Romance, The Prodigy,
The Darkness, Marilyn Manson, Paramore, Stereophonics, Limp Bizkit, Bring Me The Horizon, You Me At Six
and anyone and anything else that matters in rock music. Ozzy Osbourne has a subscrip- tion. Brian May pops
around to talk about
badgers. We were friends with Kurt Cobain. Led Zeppelin come to our parties. As do 5 Seconds Of Summer.
And Lemmy. And Slash. Okay, so Axl Rose wrote a song about how he doesn’t really like us, but we take that
more as a complement than anything.
Speak to any rock fan, globally as well as in the UK, and they’ll tell you that Kerrang! is utterly synonymous with
their existence as a rock fan. Speak to our readers now, and you will speak to them for life. Kerrang! takes our
readers further into the hearts and minds of the people who de ne them.
It creates emotional connections. You want a part of that, right? Okay, great. Now turn the page...

5.  Q is a music magazine based in the uk that publishes new issues monthly. There has been
367 issues released to date since its first issue in October 1986. It is published by the Bauer
Media Group (who are based In Hamburg). The magazine is known for their interviews and
top 100 lists.
Q
BAUER MEDIA
Circulation: 44,050
Readership: 550,000
Median age: 29
Mission statement: Employing the
world’s best music writers and
photographers, we deliver our features
with the depth and craft only a monthly
music mag can – taking the time to get
to the core of a story and producing a
magazine you can truly luxuriate in

6.  Mojo was initially published by Emap on the 15th October 1993 however since January 2008
have been published by Bauer Media Group. Mojo are a UK based music magazine known
for their frequent coverage of classic rock acts as well as sourcing newer left field acts. The
magazine is known for including a topical “covermount cd” with some of their magazines.
Mojo
BAUER MEDIA GROUP

7. MOJO 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

8.  MixMag is a UK based Dance and clubbing music magazine. Their first issue released on the
1st February 1983 and have been releasing monthly magazines since. The magazines has
been published by uk based Development Hell Ltd since 2003.
MixMag
DEVELOPMENT HELL LTD

9.  NME (New Musical Express) is a weekly music magazine based in London, UK. The
magazines first publication was issued in 1952. in July 2015 it was confirmed that the
publishers of NME had decided to remove the cover price and become a free publication. The
reason Time inc. decided to make it free was due to the sale of NME falling and the main
focus of indie rock music was failing to attract attention like it used to.
NME
TIME INC. UK

10. READER PROFILES