Research for the production of my own music magazine.

1. LAURYN DAINTON
Music Magazine Questionnaire
Analysis

2. WHAT IS YOUR GENDER?
Male
50%
Female
50%
Gender
Male
Female
I handed out my music
magazine questionnaire
evenly, I gave it to 50%
males and 50% females.
This makes my results a
lot more reliable and not
very bias.

3. WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED MUSIC GENRE?
Classical
0%
Rap
10%
Pop
70%
Indie
10%
Rock
10%
Preferred Music Genre
Classical
Rap
Pop
Indie
Rock
From my collected data, I can see that pop
music is the most popular music choice in the
selection of people that filled out my
questionnaire. There was an equal amount of
preference for Indie music, Rock music and Rap
music whereas Classical music had no interest
from any of my respondents.

4. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING MUSIC MAGAZINES WOULD YOU
READ?
NME
20%
Q
50%
UNCUT
10%
KERRANG!
20%
MOJO
0%
Preferred Music Magazine
NME
Q
UNCUT
KERRANG!
MOJO
The collected data reveals that ‘Q’ magazine
was the most popular magazine to read within
the respondents to my questionnaire.
‘KERRANG!’ and ‘NME’ were equally favoured by
the respondents, ‘UNCUT’ was only favoured by
10% of my respondents, whereas the least
favourite magazine to read, with 0% interest
was ‘MOJO’.

5. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING MASTHEADS DO YOU PREFER?
30%
30%
0%
40%
0%
Preferred Masthead
Hits
Tune
UBFM (Up Beat
Future Music)
Pulse
Lyric
For the music magazine I have to create, I asked
my respondents which of the 5 mastheads they
prefer the most, and would catch their eye and
intrigue them to read my magazine, I found the
most preferred masthead is ‘PULSE’, but ‘TUNE’
and ‘HITS’ also received an interest from my
respondents. The mastheads ‘LYRIC’ and ‘UBFM’
received no interest from any respondents.

6. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SLOGANS DO YOU PREFER?
Preferred Slogans Bringing music to
life
Face the music
Let the music speak
When words fail,
music speaks
Hear the music, See
the music, Live the
music
Hits and the juicy
bits
20%
20%
10%
10%
10%
30%
For this question I asked my respondents to
select a slogan to be featured on the front cover
of my magazine, the most preferred slogan was
‘Hits and the juicy bits’, I personally also like this
slogan and it could possibly match the masthead
‘HITS’, it’s also very catchy. All of the remaining
slogans also received interest from my
respondents.

7. WOULD YOU ACCESS WEBSITES OR OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS ASSOCIATED
WITH A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
Yes
90%
No
10%
Media Platforms
Yes
No
The majority of my respondents
said that they would access
websites or other media
platforms associated with a
music magazine, only 10% of
them said they wouldn’t.

8. HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY FOR A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
£1.50 -
£2.50
60%
£2.60 -
£3.50
40%
£3.60 - £4
0%
Pay
£1.50 - £2.50
£2.60 - £3.50
£3.60 - £4
The collected data shows that 60% of my
respondents would pay anything from
£1.50 to £2.50 for a music magazine, this
could be because they are young and
maybe couldn’t afford to pay huge
amounts. The other 40% would pay
between £2.60 and £3.50 for a music
magazine, no interest was shown in the
higher prices.

9. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING MAIN IMAGES ON THE COVER WOULD ENCOURAGE
YOU TO BUY A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
25%
25%
17%
8%
25%
Preferred Main Image
Male Artist
Female Artist
Male Group
Female Group
Mixed Group
After reviewing my results I can see that
some of my respondents would prefer to
see either a ‘MALE ARTIST’ a ‘FEMALE
ARTIST’ or a ‘MIXED GROUP’ as the main
image, whereas a ‘MALE GROUP’ was a little
less popular and a ‘FEMALE GROUP’ had the
least amount of interest from my
respondents.

10. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BANDS / ARTISTS WOULD YOU WANT TO READ
ABOUT IN A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
27%
13%
7%
13%0%
7%
33%
Bands / Artists
Justin Bieber
Imagine Dragon
Ariana Grande
Drake
Nicki Minaj
The 1975
Other
By looking at the data I collected, the most
popular artists were ones not listed, which
come under the ‘OTHER’ category, the
artist that was listed and seemed the most
popular was ‘JUSTIN BIEBER’. All other
artist had interest from the responders
except for ‘NICKI MINAJ’ who had no
interest from any responders.

11. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS FROM A CONTENTS PAGE WOULD
ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
5%
44%
11%
11%
6%
6%
11%
6%
0%
Contents Page
Editor's letter
Interviews with artists
Reviews of
albums/downloads
Live Gigs/Festivals
Regulars
Features on current bands
Downloads
Film/TV/Video Game
Reviews
Other
My collected data shows that my
respondents would rather read an
‘Interview With Artists’ than anything
else. Some respondents chose more than
one section that would encourage them,
there was interest from each responder
for an option listed, nobody such ‘Other’.
This gives me an idea of what would get
peoples attention more and what would
interest the readers when I create my
own music magazine.

12. WHAT TYPE OF ARTICLE DO YOU ENJOY READING IN A MUSIC
MAGAZINE?
64%
18%
9%
9%
0%
Preferred Article
1st Person Interview with
bands/artists - question/answer
3rd Person Interview with
bands/artists
Information about the
history/background of bands/artists
Reviews of CDs/gigs/tours
Other
Looking at my data, I can see that the
most popular article that my
responders like to read in a magazine is
the ‘1st Person Interview’ along with
‘3rd Person Interviews’. No responders
suggested any other articles and
showed interested in most that were
listed, this gives me a slight idea on
what to include in my music magazine to
keep people interested.