The document provides an overview of the typical content found in issues of the music magazine NME. It describes several regular pages, including "Sounding Off" where readers can write in about artists, and "On Repeat" and "Radar" which recommend new music. The main articles usually focus on new album releases and provide background on artists. The magazine also includes band listings, featured artist previews, reviews of albums, and advertisements that are relevant to music fans.

1. Homework 1 – Content
NME have a lot of pages that appear on
every issue that is released. One of these
pages is called ‘Sounding Off’ and is a page
where readers write in to talk/rave
about/slate artists/bands and each week is a
new person replying to all these letters on
the page. They also have a letter of the week
and if you manage to secure the letter of the
week you get £50 worth of ticket vouchers
from a website called www.seetickets.com.
Another page that features in every issue is called ‘On
Repeat’ and in every issue, they recommend 20 new
tracks that you should listen to. This allows the reader to
discover new artists and keep up to date with new music
that is being released. Similarly, on a page titled ‘Radar’,
NME suggest some new artists for you to ‘discover’ that
relate to the indie/rock genre so that you are likely to
enjoy their music.
The main articles within the magazine are almost always about a new album
being released. The main feature about Royal Blood (as seen on the magazine
cover) talks about their success and often compares their sale numbers with
other successful artists such as Oasis and Arctic Monkeys for a shock factor
which makes them seem like an ‘amazing’ band that you will want to listen to.
A lot of the articles with bands and artists talk about their background so that
readers feel like they really know who the artists they listen to and want to
find out more about who they are and their pasts.
On the contents page, NME have conveniently have
a band list which informs you of all the bands
mentioned in the magazine and what page to find it
on. This gives an idea to the reader of what to
expect and it allows them to find their favourite
artists and go straight to where they are mentioned.
On the back page, there is also a list of some of the
featured artists in the next issues. This gets readers
excited and makes them want to purchase the next
magazine to see the artists mentioned.
Some of the artists featured in the magazine are: The Ramones,
Kasabian, Foo Fighters, The Who, and The Smashing Pumpkins.
All of these are rock bands which is suitable for the magazine
because they are a rock/indie magazine. They have included
these artists instead of Pop artists because the readers will be
interested in their music because they buy the magazine
because they prefer indie/rock music.
In every edition of NME, they have a section where they
review albums. People respect NME and value their
opinion so will want to read what they thought of an
album before purchasing it to see if it is worth it or not.
People will also want to read the reviews if the album is a
new release because there won’t be many other reviews
on it and so NME may be the first one they have read
which will influence whether they listen to it or not.

2. One of the advertisements in this magazine is promoting
O2 Priority. It is promoting their concert tickets that get
released 48n hours before the other tickets. This has been
used as an advertisement because everyone who is reading
a music magazine will want to see their favourite bands at
their concert and so they will be drawn to the ad to see if
they are able to get tickets to a convert before they sell out
straight after general release. The advertisements in the
magazine will mainly relate to music as that is what the
readers are interested in and so they are more likely to be
interested in it.
There is a full page advertisement on a deal on a
subscription to NME magazine. This has been
placed here as clearly readers will be interested
in saving money while still being able to read the
magazine because if they weren’t interested in
the magazine then they wouldn’t have spent
money on it.