2. Genre Strentghs Weaknesses
Pop -pop is the most popular music genre
-huge variety of artists to choose from
-charts are dominated by pop music
-pop is suitable for all ages
-huge numbers of new artists every
year
-majority of radio stations play pop
music
-huge competition levels
-mainly attracts a teenage girl fan base
-can be hard to show that a magazine
is a pop magazine
-new song releases constantly may be
hard to keep up with
R & B - R&B music never dates, so old
songs can be played for years
- There is a huge fan base for R&B
music with varied genders
- A lot of chart music is R&B
- Almost a niche market
- Not the biggest fan base
- Can be difficult to target a specific
market
- Not many new chart releases
- Artists may be difficult to
interview as they tend to be so
well known
Rap - There isnt much competition in the
market
- Big fan base for Rap music varied
genders
- Targets a niche market
- Huge celebrities
- Very hard to get celebrities that
are big enough to sell enough
copies
- Not a huge fan base, will be more
popular in certain areas of UK
- Not many regular song releases
3. Public Results
Genre Frequency
Pop 8
R & B 3
Rap 6
I asked 17 people which genre of music they would rather buy a magazine
of. The age of people I asked varied from 6 – 20. The majority of people
said they would rather buy a pop magazine. I asked 8 boys and 9 girls
therefore the ratio was fair and my results are reliable between the
genders, even though it is a small sample I can still generalise my results
for a large spread of people.
