Course Work

1. MAGAZINE PLUBLISHERS
India-Rain Harrison

2. BAUER
Q
KERRANG!
Mojo

3.  Q is one of the many publications from BAUER media group
 It is one of the UKs top music magazines
 In all the years Q has been published, it has gone “unrivalled”
because of the access the have within the music industry
 It is a monthly magazine price ranging from £3.40 - £3.90
 Q printed a special ‘The 1975’
edition of their magazine,
costing £9.99 including a 7 inch
vinyl. It was a limited edition,
having only 5000 copies
available to The 1975’s fans

4.  KERRANG! is the worlds biggest
selling weekly rock magazine
 It is mainly rock music based
 KERRANG! is currently being
published by Hamburg which is
based in BAUER media group
 KERRANG! have their own radio
station, attracting 920,000 listeners
per week
 KERRANG.com rake in 8 million
page viewers per month
 On average, KERRANG! have
745,000 likes on Facebook,
583,000 Twitter followers and
78,000 Instagram followers

5.  MOJO is the worlds largest UK
music magazine
 MOJO is the magazine the music
OBSSESED people read
 Each month, MOJO brings out the
magazine with a different act on
the front cover plus a bespoke CD
 MOJO covers music from all the
different genres such as, classic
and modern rock, folk, soul,
country to reggae, electronic and
experimental
 MOJO prefer to publish quality
music rather than popular music
e.g. music that will stand the test
of time

6. Team Rock
 CLASSIC ROCK
 METAL HAMMER
 PROG

7.  CLASSIC Rock is seen as a
communist magazine mainly
focusing on false rock
 They focus on key bands from the
1960s through to the early 1990s
 They published their 150th issue in
September 2010 and now have a
higher circulation than NME
 CLASSIC Rock’s now publishers,
Team Rock, bought the magazine
from previous publishers, Future,
back in 2013
 CLASSIC Rock started as an on-off
project and are now one of the
UKs best selling music magazines

8.  METAL HAMMER is a monthly
heavy metal music magazine
 It is not only published in the UK
but also in several countries
around the world by different
publishers
 The other countries in which
METAL HAMMER is published are
Israel, Japan, Serbia, Spain, The
Netherlands, Italy, Poland,
Hungary and France
 Not only do METAL HAMMER
discuss mainstream heavy metal
bands, they also write about
unusual acts from the whole
heavy metal spectrum

9.  PROG mainly focuses on bands
from the past as well as the
present
 The magazine was first published
in March 2009
 PROG was only published 9 times
a year up until 2012 when they
bumped it up to 10
 In 2010 PROG was selling 22,000
copies per month which is half the
quantity of NME
 In 2014, PROG wrote a full page of
100 greatest PROG albums for
their readers

10. NME
UNCUT
Time Inc.

11.  NME is the first magazine to
publish any news on music around
the world and it is the worlds most
iconic music magazine
 NME is at the forefront of music
culture
 The NME awards and tour are seen
as the most important music
events in the UK
 It was crowned Music Media Brand
of the year in 2013
 NME live events have up to
215,000 attendees every year
 NME delivers everything that
matters in music

12.  UNCUT readers spend around
£792 pounds per year on CDs
 Readers spend over twice the
amount on music a year than the
average adult
 Rock, classic indie and Americana
are the 3 main music genres
UNCUT readers favor
 UNCUT is known as the home of
the great, timeless rock music
 Sonic Editions & Uncut have come
together to make a series of high
quality and iconic rock photos that
are affordable and available to
UNCUT magazine readers

13. Development
Hell
MIXMAG
The Word

14.  MIXMAG is one of the UKs biggest
electronic dance and clubbing
music magazine
 It costs £5.50 an issue
 MIXMAG used to be owned by
development hell until 2015 when
it was re-named MIXMAG Media
Limited
 It was founded in 1982 and
promotes club nights, dance event
and reviews music and club nights
 When it covered house music one
of the editors turned it from a
newsletter for DJs to a physical
magazine
 The magazine circulation hit
70,000 in the 90’s, however sales
then dipped in 2003

15.  The word was a magazine first published in
February 2003
 It was originally the first magazine published by
Development Hell
 The magazine was announced to be closing
down in June 2012 by one of its editors via
Twitter
 The front of the magazine mainly consisted of
featured images, interviews and other features
 The back consisted of reviews on CDs, DVDs and
films and books
 Some of the biggest artists interviews were
featured within this magazine, i.e. Prince was
once featured in one of the magazines
publications