1. Task 4B
Make a decision on which sub-genre the magazine you will produce
belongs to. Research into a specific music magazine that links in some
way to your chosen sub-genre and find out who publishes it. Do
research into this publisher and why it might or might not make a
suitable publisher for your final magazine.

2. Sub-genre
I want the magazine that I make to be part of the Pop music
genre, as I like pop music myself and the genre already has a
large fanbase.

3. Music magazine
Top of the Pops is a current music magazine which is published
every month by Immediate Media Company. It was launched
in February 1995 and has a target audience of young girls. It
has featured artists and bands such as:
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The Spice Girls
One Direction
Taylor Swift
Justin Bieber
JLS
Cher Lloyd

4. Immediate Media Company
• Immediate Media is a publishing company created in
• It is a combination of Origin publishing, Magicalia and BBC
Magazines and was formed in 2011.
• Some of many that it publishes:
– Top of the Pops
– Radio Times
– BBC Music Magazine
– Girl Talk
– BBC Wildlife
– Horrible Histories

5. Publisher for my magazine
I think that Immediate Media
would be a suitable
publisher for my magazine,
as it is a successful
publisher and already has
experience with music
magazines and magazines
aimed at a similar target
audience to mine.

6. Publisher for my magazine
However, another publisher
might be a better choice as
Immediate Media already
published a pop magazine
and would be creating more
competition for itself if it
were to publish another
magazine of the same music
genre.