Music magazine research

1. Music Magazine
Research

3. BAUER
MEDIA
 Bauer Media is a division of the
Bauer Media Group, Europe’s largest
privately owned publishing Group.
 The Group is a worldwide media empire
offering over 300 magazines in 15
countries, as well as online, TV and radio
stations.
 Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based
media Group consisting of many
companies collected around two main
divisions – Magazines and Radio - widely
recognised and rewarded as being
industry innovators.
 Today, Bauer Media spans over 80
influential brand names covering a
diverse range of interests which are all
shown on the large picture to the right.

4. TITLE TOTAL MALE
FEMAL
E
AGE RANGE
ABC1
15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
CAR 158000 82.1% 17.9%
23.3
%
21.5
%
19.2
%
18.5
%
9.5% 8%
58.4
%
CLASSIC
CARS
436000 87.7% 12.3% 16%
13.8
%
15.3
%
21.9
%
19.3
%
13.6
%
60.6
%
CLOSER
139500
0
8.4% 91.6%
32.9
%
29.6
%
16.2
%
13.8
%
4.7% 2.8%
47.9
%
EMPIRE 873000 77% 23%
34.8
%
26.7
%
21.4
%
12.5
%
3.6% 1.1%
72.8
%
FHM 881000 85.5% 14.5%
29.8
%
35.1
%
21.7
%
9.8% 3.4% 0.2%
54.3
%
GOLF
WORLD
278000 86.2% 13.8%
12.1
%
16.5
%
20.2
%
13.1
%
11.9
%
26.1
%
74.4
%
GRAZIA 390000 2.8% 97.2%
28.2
%
24.6
%
28.2
%
13.4
%
4.1% 1.5%
82.4
%
HEAT
117700
0
16.3% 83.7%
40.7
%
28.7
%
16.7
%
10% 2.7% 1.1%
58.6
%
KERRANG! 345000 54.7% 45.3%
56.1
%
21.5
%
13.4
%
7.1% 1.8% 0.1% 51%
MATCH! 194000 75.3% 24.7%
33.7
%
15.3
%
26.8
%
17.1
%
2.2% 5%
44.9
%
MOJO 220000 73.1% 26.9% 24%
17.1
%
17.2
%
28.8
%
10.4
%
2.5%
59.5
%
MORE! 388000 5.9% 94.1%
51.4
%
29%
15.1
%
3.2% 1.1% 0.1% 57%
MOTHER
& BABY
512000 12.6% 87.4%
22.6
%
42%
21.1
%
10.1
%
2.5% 1.8%
44.7
%
PREGNAN
CY AND
BIRTH
130000 10.1% 89.9%
26.5
%
37.1
%
22.7
%
11.8
%
1% 0.9%
54.5
%
Q 377000 68.3% 31.7%
35.5
%
26.3
%
19.8
%
13.9
%
3.1% 1.4% 70%

6. • Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) is one of the world's
leading media companies reaching more than
130 million consumers each month across
multiple platforms.
• It is an American New York-based publishing
company.
• As of September 30, 2014, Time Inc. operated
approximately 40 websites that collectively have
over 100 million average monthly unique visitors
around the world.
• The company also operates integrated publishing
businesses that provide content marketing,
targeted advertising programs, branded book
publishing and marketing and support services.
• Time Inc. is the leader in the U.S. consumer magazine
industry in print and digital audience as well as share of
print advertising.
• Time Inc. connects with 100 million consumers in print
and 81 million online each month.
• Time Inc. brands attract young and affluent consumers;
2 out of 3 have incomes over $100,000+ and more than
half are 18-34
• Time Inc. UK is Britain’s leading publisher of print and
digital magazine content.
• Its influential brands include People, Sports Illustrated,
InStyle, Time, Real Simple, Southern Living,
Entertainment Weekly, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine
and Fortune, as well as more than 50 diverse titles at
Time Inc. UK

8. NORTHERN AND
SHELL
• Northern & Shell was founded in December 1974 as the publisher of
the music magazine International Musician and Recording World.
• The company Northern & Shell Media Group has experienced almost
four decades of expansion, becoming a significant force in British and
worldwide media, with a portfolio of both newspapers and magazines.
• Today, The Northern & Shell Media Group owns four national
newspaper titles – the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and
Daily Star Sunday – and celebrity magazines OK!, new! and Star, and is
a 50% joint venture partner in the Irish Daily Star.

9. • Billboard has served the entertainment business since
1894. Beginning as a weekly for the billposting and
advertising business, Billboard and its popular music
charts have evolved into the primary source of
information on trends and innovation in music, serving
music fans, artists, top executives, tour promoters,
publishers, radio programmers, lawyers, retailers, digital
entrepreneurs and many others.
• As Billboard's consumer-faced online home, Billboard.com
features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts,
breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives,
news, video and more. Launched in 1995 as Billboard
Online, Billboard.com now attracts well over ten million
unique visitors each month in more than 100 countries
and has become the de facto digital destination for
popular music.
• Billboard is headquartered in New York with bureaus in
Los Angeles and Miami, and has editorial correspondents
in major cities around the globe.

10. BILLBOARD’S
MEDIA PACK

11. BILLBOARDS
PUBLISHER
• Billboard is headquartered in New York City, New York, owned and published by
Prometheus Global Media.
• It was first published on November 1, 1894, and is distinguished as being among the
oldest trade magazines in the world.
• The magazine originally focused on bill posting and outdoor amusements before
specializing in the music industry in the 1960s.

13. • The Billboard Music Award is an honor given
by Billboard, a publication and music popularity
chart covering the music business.
• The Billboard Music Awards show had been held
annually since 1989 in December until it went
dormant in 2007.
• The awards returned in 2011 and is held annually in
May.
• In 1988, Michael Jackson was honored
with Billboard's first Spotlight Award for being the
first artist in history to have five consecutive number
ones singles on Billboard Hot 100 from one album.
• In 2012, Katy Perry was honored with Billboard's
second Spotlight award for being the second and first
female artist in history to have five consecutive
number ones singles on Billboard Hot 100 from one
album.

15. ABOUT Q
MAGAZINE • Q is a popular music magazine published
monthly in the United Kingdom.
• Founders Mark Ellen and David
Hepworth were dismayed by the music press
of the time, which they felt was ignoring a
generation of older music buyers who were
buying CDs — then still a new
technology. Q was first published by
the EMAP media group in October 1986,
setting itself apart from much of the other
music press with monthly production and
higher standards of photography and printing.
• In the early years, the magazine was sub-titled
"The modern guide to music and more".
Originally it was to be calledCue (as in the
sense of cueing a record, ready to play), but
the name was changed so that it wouldn't be
mistaken for a snookermagazine. Another
reason, cited in Q's 200th edition, is that a
single-letter title would be more prominent
on newsstands.
• In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer
magazine titles, including Q, to the Bauer
Media Group

16. Q
AWARDS • The Q Awards are the UK's annual music awards
run by the music magazine Q. Since they began in
1990, the Q Awards have become one of Britain's
biggest and best publicised music awards.
Locations for the awards ceremony include Abbey
Road Studios and, more recently, The Park Lane
Ballroom.
• One of the more notable events of the awards
was the ceremony of 2004, at which Elton
John accused Madonna of cheating fans
by miming on stage, after she had been
nominated for a Best Live Act award.
• The Q Awards are notable for including
numerous awards recognising a lifetime
of achievement, rather than
achievements over the year in question.
In recent years, the 'lifetime' awards
have usually outnumbered the 'current' awards.

17. Q MEDIA

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