Hannah Karp is the editorial director of Billboard magazine, making her the first female in that position. Billboard is a music magazine that features artists who have made the Billboard charts across various genres. The target audience is young adults aged 16 to 26 who want the latest news and updates from the charts. The magazine uses different cover designs and colors to represent the style of the featured artist.

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2. Billboard Magazine (Hannah Karp)
Hannah Karp is Billboard magazine’s editorial director. She is the first female to ever assume her position. Previously she worked for the
wall street journal .The magazine, billboard is a devoted music magazine that features artists that have made it into the billboard charts,
and also various popular songs, bands and artists at the time of the issue. Billboard magazine does not specify to one particular genre of
music and is a hybrid magazine. The total readership is 48,000. billboard’s main focus on the biggest artists and the people that are
driving the music business. The rate card suggests that a wide variety of people enjoy the magazine, and
there's no specific age group, culture, ethnicity, social statues or psychographics. However the target audience for the magazine
Is designed for young adults aged 16 to 26 years of age As a lot of the articles provides the readers with the
latest news and updates from the charts. But also with a lot of genres of music which is appealing to a wider
audience. I like how billboard have a wide variety of cover designs, giving light on the style of the artist on the
cover, Katy Perry is A bubbly girls girl therefore there is a pink design, chance the rapper has a upbeat happy
persona about him so lighter and brighter colours are used. Beyoncé is a female icon to others around the
world so black and white colours are used for dominance, this is something I would like to portray in my
magazine.

3. Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez is a female singer, actress and producer. She started out
appearing on the children's television series Barney and friends, she received
higher recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Disney
Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place which aired for four
seasons from 2007 until 2012. she then started out her career in singing in
2009 .she formed a band, Gomez and the scene and managed to attain top
ten on the US billboard 200 with the albums Kiss & tell in 2009, A Year
Without Rain in 2010 and When the Sun Goes Down in 2011. in her solo
career is where she reached real fame when she hit top ten on the billboards
with seven different songs. Selena believes in saving immigrants and speaks
publicly about it which is an admirable thing, using her fame to inspire other
young impressionable fans.
I have noticed a lot of artists have started out their career as actors and then
gone on to become famous singers, some examples are; Christina Aguilera,
Nick Jonas, Bradley Cooper, Drake, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato. This
something that I could consider when creating my made up pop star,
researching singers back story is going to help me make the story of this
upcoming pop star more believable and realistic for my audience.

4. Selena Gomez
2016 album ‘hands
to myself’
2008 single ‘Tell me
something I don’t
know’
2015 album ‘revival’
2013 single ‘come
get it’
From Selena’s album covers you can see the development in her career
with age. Selena has gone from an innocent and childish career to a
more adult-like approach to her advertisement. In 2008 you can see that
it is simple as she has no make-up and looks young as the audience she
was aiming it for will have been young children, but where as in 2013
you can already start to see the difference the development in her
advertisement and career as she is wearing makeup and has a more
confident and bold album cover with bright red colours and expressive
look. The single is for an older audience such as teenagers so the need
for making it look exciting and fun is important for sales. What I’ve
noticed is that in 2015 and 2016 selena has gone for a more seductive
and mature album cover, being that she is nude on the cover. I found
that this is similar to Miley Cyrus’s career as well as although they are
both women with singing careers in some cases people are still see
them as children having had very big acting careers when they were
children which could cause some people to find that a little strange.

5. ArianaGrande
Ariana Grande is an actress, singer and songwriter. She started her career in 2008 in the Broadway
before playing the role cat valentine on the children's tv show victorious, a show broadcasted on
Nickelodeon. The showed aired for 4 years where she became a very popular actress in children’s
television, after the show victorious had finished Ariana went on to do a spin off of the show called
Sam & cat but had be cut to just one season as her music career became too large to carry on with
the show. Having a large acting career gave Ariana a big head start in her singing career as her
audience already loved her. Ariana made her first musical appearance in the 2011 soundtrack
Music from victorious. After CEO of republic records came across one of her YouTube videos
covering songs. Ariana Grande has since then made 4 UK number ones and 11 UK top 10’s and has
Appeared on talk shows such as the tonight show with Jimmy Fallon. From being on a children's tv show, to a top of
the charts artist, Ariana thorough out her career she has always been known for her bubbly and generous personality.
Ariana does frequent meet and greets with her fans and regularly does signings. Ariana is a
regular user on social media and posts multiple times a day, this could help her connect with her
fans as they always have an idea of what she’s doing and also they have a stronger understanding
of her beliefs and thoughts on subjects.