1. Beth Cox
Music Sub-genre:Pop
Magazine:Billboard Magazine
The world's premier music publication, 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.
January 4, 1936: Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade. The
magazine was founded on November 1, 1894 by William H. Donaldson and James H.
Tommy Page is Billboard's Publisher. He joined the company in June of 2011 after
several years at Warner Bros. /Reprise Records, where he worked as a recording
artist, an A&R executive, and most recently as the Vice President of Top 40 Radio
Promotion. During his time at Warner Bros. /Reprise Records, Tommy helped shape
the careers of many successful artists, including Michael Buble, Alanis Morissette,
Josh Groban, and Green Day. He also had his own No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit in April
1990 with "I'll Be Your Everything" collaboration with Page's tour mates, New Kids on
the Block) before returning to NYU's Stern School of Business to pursue his career as
a music executive.
These are some examples of Billboards magazines:
2. Beth Cox
Music Sub-genre: Pop
Magazine: Q Magazine
Q was first published by the EMAP media group in October 1986, Bauer Media and
the founders of Q magazine are Mark Ellen and David Hepworth.
Bauer Media discovered Q magazine in 1986. Bauer Media is a sister company of H
Bauer Publishing, the publisher of the UK's biggest TV listings, Take a Break and Bella.
Bauer Media is a multi-platform UK-based media Group. It consisting of a variety of
companies that have been collected around two main divisions – Magazines and
Radio – and is also widely recognised. They also publish Kerrang magazine as well as
Q magazine.
Mark Ellen graduated from Oxford University and wrote for Record Mirror, NME and
Time Out. David Hepworth also has a hand in working for NME and launched Q. You
can tell from the backgrounds that both Ellen and Hepworth have had a very
educational background and are on the higher side of the class system, and this can
be reflected in the elegance of Q magazine and the vast majority of readers who are
of a higher class. Hepworth is the only person to have won both the Periodical
Publishers Association’s writer of the year and editor of the year award. They have
both had hands in launching magazines like More (1987), Empire (1988), Mojo
n(1993), Heat (1999) and The Word (2003). He is currently director of the magazine
publishing company Development Hell with Mark Ellen.
These are some examples of Q’s magazines:
