Kerrang is a 29-year-old British music magazine published by Bauer Media Group that focuses mainly on rock music. It has a readership of 21,000 people who are heavy music consumers, purchasing over 6 albums per month on average. Rock Sound is a 14-year-old magazine that prides itself on covering new bands and has a readership of 48,914 with over 50% of readers being musicians. Q Magazine, also published by Bauer Media Group, was founded in 1986 and covers a wide range of music with a circulation of 52,781 and a median reader age of 34.

1. British music magazines
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2. Kerrang is published by Bauer Media Group, it primarily focuses on rock
music but does cover some other genres.
Kerrang has 29 years of heritage and is the biggest music weekly in the
world, with a readership of 21,000. It also has an ABC1 profile of 52% and
the median age of it’s readers is 22.
It’s readers are the heaviest music consumers purchasing over 6 albums per
month on average, as well as over 85% of their readers purchasing every
issue.

4. Rock sound pride themselves on providing ‘immediate and meaningful
access to the best new bands on the scence’. They are a 14 year old
magazine, published by Freeway Press Inc, who have a readership of
48,914 and an ABC circulation of 13,220.
Their audience spends around £546 million per year on music, £611 million
per year on fashion and over 50% of their readers are musicians.
Rock Sound’s audience spans over different media platforms with 358,000
Facebook likes, 214,000 Twitter followers and 78,000 YouTube subscribers

6. Q Magazine was published by Bauer Media Group in 1986. It covers a wide
range of music, it currently has a circulation of 52,781, an ABC profile of
71.8% and a median reader age of 34.
Q also produces a digital edition every month that ‘brings music alive’, it
combines interactive galleries, videos and music links so you can listen
while you read. Once a year Q also host an awards ceremony, which is
supported by their associate partners.

8. Bauer Media Group is Europe’s largest privately
owned publishing group, it publishes over 300
magazines in 15 countries. Bauer Media is a sister
company of H Bauer Publishing, publisher of the UK's
biggest TV listings, Take a Break and Bella. Some of
the magazines published are..
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