Analysis of 3 music magazine covers

1. Analysis of
front covers
(3x)

2. For the first cover I have chosen to do a Top Of The Pops
magazine cover. The genre of the music is all pop and all
the kinds of music that are the most popular and relevant to
the most famous celebrities. The first magazine is a Top Of
The Pops cover. The cover shows the band Little Mix, who
are a big band around this moment in time. There are other
celebrities on the page who are in the news and music
industry at the moment, and there are several different
stories on the magazine. There are different topics on
the magazine cover that indicate that the magazine is not all
on Little Mix. There is a puff on a 'real life reader's' story. The
three topics on the left third are about three celebrities who
are popular and famous at the moment. The magazine is a
BBC magazine and it has a bar code, a price and the
website published on the cover. The main headline is about
one of the girls from Little Mix having a secret, and to find
out who it is you must read the article. The magazine cover
is quite busy, and because of it being busy it draws in
attention from readers making them want to read it because
it is all full of 'gossip' and news on the
most popular celebrities at the moment.

3. The next magazine cover is VIBE. The genre is a
more hip-hop and r'n'b than pop. The people who
are featured within the magazine are still as famous,
just are from a different genre of music. The celebrity
featured on the magazine cover is Nicki Minaj, one
of the biggest rap artists around at the moment. She
is wearing a tiara, as she is dominating the
magazine cover she is also dominating the music
industry at the moment. From what she is also
wearing, it shows that she is 'queen/king'. This
magazine cover is less busy than the other cover,
with only having a few article issues posted on the
cover. The magazine has the barcode, the website
and the price tag also on the magazine cover. The
articles on the cover are all to do with male topics,
and men based articles. So having a woman on the
cover makes it look like the r'n'b world is a mans
world. The magazine cover's house style is orange
and white. They are the main two colours, apart from
the writing in black.

4. The last magazine cover is a cover from Kerrang. The
genre of music is more pop, punk style than pop etc. It is
again a My Chemical Romance based cover. The
magazine issue celebrity is Gerard Way (lead singer.) He
is holding up his hands and making them guns because
of his at the time song that came out. Only readers of
Kerrang or fans of My Chemical Romance would be able
to interpret-ate that. The clothes he is wearing are from
his new video 'Na Na Na' and the article involving Gerard
Way and is band are on the new album they would of
just published called 'Danger Days'. Aside from the MCR
articles, there are also hall of fame poster specials. This
shows that the magazine not only keeps in with the
newest bands and music, there is also old music like
Ozzy Osbourne and Slash within the magazine. There is
still a bar code and a price tag, and the dates issue.
There are a few pieces of text on the readers attention
would cling onto like 'The UK's biggest gig guide!'
and 'Exclusive MCR' etc. These are the bold, house
style fitted texts that they would fit into and make the
reader grab onto.