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.
I would use this publisher for my music magazine as he’s been involved with many artists
such as Green Day, Michael Buble and Alanis Morisette. Therefore he’s been involved with
big stars and has good experience. Also he’s had his own single and been involved in the
music business so knows what it’s like, and therefore understands the publishing industry
from a different perspective.
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 (1993), Heat (1999) and The Word (2003). He is currently
director of the magazine publishing company Development Hell with Mark Ellen.
I would use Q magazines publishers as they’ve had a good education and been involved with
some successful magazines such as Heat, Mojo and More. The way they’ve published these
magazines have made them successful therefore, they’d be good to use for my music
magazine as there publishing techniques make a magazine successful.
These are some examples of Q’s magazines: