2. Current Logo as of January 2013
Current Editor- Danyel Smith
Frequency dispatched -Weekly
Circulation -16,327
First issue -1894
Company -Prometheus Global Media
Country- United States
Language -English
Billboard is an international musical based news magazine, and is one of the
oldest trade magazines in the world Starting with its first issue in 1894. It keeps
up with several internationally recognized music charts that track the most
popular songs and albums in various music categories on a weekly basis. The two
most notable charts are the Billboard Hot 100, which ranks the top 100 songs not
caring about the genre of the songs and it is also based on digital sales, radio
airplay, and internet streaming data.
3. Top of the Pops magazine is published monthly by Immediate Media
Company. Inside you will find chart information, star gossip, fashion and
beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters. It is a supplementary magazine
for the TV show Top of the Pops which in 2006 was cancelled but they kept
publishing the magazine.
It was launched in February 1995. It gave the Girl group ‘The Spice Girl’s’ their
nicknames and is famous for doing so. Alongside a revamp of the TV show, it
was originally marketed as the missing link between Smash Hits and NME, but
over a period of time it’s content became less about music and a went through a
demographic shift to young girls.
The title has had several editors over the years, including Peter Lorraine,
Corinna Schaffer and Rosalie Snaith, and contributing editors including Adam
Tanswell. Its current editor is Peter Hart.
4. Editor- Andrew Harrison
Frequency -Monthly
Publisher- Bauer Media Group
Total circulation- 58,980 (ABC Jan–Jul 2013)
First issue- October 1986
Country -United Kingdom
‘Q’ is a popular music magazine which is again published monthly in the United
Kingdom.
Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the
time, they felt people were ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were
buying CDs — then still a new technology. Q was first published by the EMAP media
group in October 1986, it set itself apart from many other music press with monthly
production with their higher standards of photography and printing. In the early
years, the magazine was sub-titled "The modern guide to music and more". Originally
it was going to be called Cue, but as the name sounded like a snooker magazine they
changed it to the well known ‘Q’. Another reason, seen in Q's 200th edition, is that a
single-letter title would be more prominent on newsstands.
In January 2008 EMAP sold its consumer magazine titles, including Q, to the Bauer
Media Group.
5. ‘Blender’ was an American music magazine that billed itself as "the ultimate guide to
music and more". It was also known for sometimes steamy/suggestive pictures of
celebrities. Some of its content is lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both
“best of” and “worst of” lists. In each issue, there was a review of an artist's entire
discography (every song they have ever done), with each album being analyzed in
turn.
Blenders publisher was Dennis Publishing. The first magazine was published in 1994
as the first digital CD-ROM magazine by Jason Pearson, David Cherry & Regina
Joseph, acquired by Felix Dennis/Dennis Publishing, in the UK it published 15 digital
CD issues, and launched on the web in 1997. It started publishing a print edition again
in 1999 in its most recent form. Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital
editorial formats, as well as the first forms of digital advertising
Owner Alpha Media Group closed Blender magazine March 26, 2009, going to an
online-only format in a move that eliminated 30 jobs and reduced the company's
portfolio of titles to Maxim alone. Blender's final print issue was in the April of 2009.
Subscribers to the magazine were sent issues of Maxim magazine to make up for the
unsent Blender issues.
6. Editor -James McMahon
Frequency -Weekly
Circulation- 42,077
Publisher- Bauer Media Group
Founder -Alan Lewis
First issue- 6 June 1981
Country- United Kingdom (London)
Language- English
Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media
Group. Its first publication was 6 June 1981 as a ‘one-off’ supplement in the Sounds
newspaper. Kerrang is named after the onomatopoeic word that is the sound made
when playing a power chord on a distorted electric guitar, Kerrang! was initially
devoted to the new popular up rise of British Heavy Metal and hard rock acts. In the
early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.
