The document summarizes and compares several music magazines by describing their target audiences, featured artists, publishers, editors, costs, and strengths and weaknesses. NME focuses on alternative music and new artists, features bands like Arctic Monkeys and Muse, and costs around £2.40 weekly. Q magazine covers various genres and popular music, uses striking images and cover lines, but can be expensive at £3.90 monthly. Kerrang! is solely devoted to rock music and features Green Day and My Chemical Romance, costing £2.20 weekly. Mojo was the best-selling music magazine in 2013 and covers a wide range of genres from Radiohead to Fleetwood Mac for £4.50 monthly. Finally, Top

3. I chose this magazine because it is simple but effective. It
simplistic form shows that this magazine is more about the
music than gossip and celebs. The cover always tells you
what is in the magazine and what artist are involved. It
makes it easy for the reader to find what they want.

4. The music genre for NME magazine is alternative music, and
new artist coming on to the music scene. The music magazine
features artists such as:
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Arctic monkeys
David Bowie
The Killers
Peace
Nirvana
Vampire Weekend
Foals
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Florence and the machine
Two Door Cinema Club
Muse
Mumford and sons
The Stone Roses
Lana Del Rey

5. The founder of NME is Theodore Ingham and
published by Mike Williams.
The editor of NME is Mike Williams

6. The weekly released magazines cost over £2
around £2.40.

7. Like:
• Use of artists in the key image makes you want to read it.
• Using the NME logo, it is easily seen and easily recognisable.
• Uses different artists weekly, make it always new and exciting.
Dislike:
• Doesn’t use many cover lines, more cover lines would draw
reader in even more.
• Sometimes artists are used more frequently than others.

9. I have chosen this magazine because I think it is an
effective magazine, as it is stylish and also all about
the music. It uses many different artists on the cover
for all different types of music genres. The key images
are always catchy and the key logo of a white Q in a
red box makes the brand easily recognisable.

10. Q magazine features many different music genres. It features
new and old music and features a lot of popular music. Artists
that have featured in Q magazine are:
•Lily Allen
•Florence and the machine
•Adele
•Cheryl Cole
•Muse
•Jay-Z
•Noel Gallagher
•Coldplay
•Beyonce
•Lana Del Rey
•Take That
•Lady Gaga

11. The founders of Q magazine are Mark Ellen and
David Hepworth. The publishers of Q magazine are
Bauer Media Group.
The editor of the magazine is Andrew Harrison.

12. The monthly edition of Q magazine costs £3.90

13. Like:
•The easily recognisable logo of the Q
•The key images are always striking
•Key cover lines draw you in
Dislike:
•Cost is expensive
•Sometimes features the same artist repeatedly.

15. I have chosen this magazine because it is very different to
the other magazines I have looked at. It has a completely
different genre to magazines such as Q and NME. Kerrang!
Magazine is devoted to rock music, and this is the only
genre seen within the magazine whereas with magazines
like Q and NME they have a much wider genres of music.

16. Kerrang! Magazine features music from the rock genre. These
are artists such as:
• Green Day
• Fall Out Boy
•30 Seconds to mars
•Blink 182
•All Time Low
•Paramore
•Bullet For My Valentine
•Avenged Sevenfold
•Billy Clyro
•You Me at Six
•Asking Alexandra
•My Chemical Romance

17. •The publisher of Kerrang! Magazine is Bauer Media Group.
•The founder of Kerrang! Magazine is Alan Lewis.
The editor of Kerrang! Magazine is James Mcmahon.

18. The weekly magazine cost approx. £2:20

19. Like:
•Sticks to the genre of the magazine.
•It is easily recognisable from a distance, for the catchy masthead.
•Frequency is often, gain a large audience.
Dislike:
•Only specific to one genre, doesn’t have a large target audience.
•Front cover sometimes look too crowded.

21. I have chosen this magazine, as it again is different music
magazines. It is also the biggest selling music magazine
in 2013. So looking at Mojo helps us to compare this
magazines to other, to see what the unique selling point
of the magazine.

22. Mojo magazine started off originally as a classic rock
magazine, but now features a much wider range of music. These
are artists such as:
•Radio Head
•Oasis
•Johnny Cash
•Bob Dylan
•The Smiths
•The Beatles
•Pink Floyd
•The Rolling Stones
•Foo Fighters
•Queen
•Led Zeppelin
•Fleetwood Mac

23. At first Mojo was published by Emap, but changed over to Bauer
in to 2008.
The editor of Mojo magazine is Phil Alexander.

24. An issue of Mojo is £4.50, and the frequency of the magazine is
monthly editions.

25. Like:
•The use of bold predominant colour in the basic colour scheme.
•Key images are clear and stand out, reader would be able to recognise the
artist from a distant.
•Has a wide target audience, and this helps it become the best selling music
magazine.
Dislike:
•The magazine is quite expensive, however this regularly includes cover
mounted CD.
•To much on the front cover can sometimes look messy and unorgnasied.

27. I have chosen top of the pops magazine because it has a
completely different target audience to most other music
magazine. The target audience is younger girls, and this
magazine fits in well with the target audience with it’s fonts
and colours.

28. The clue of the genre is in the title, the music is in the pop
genre. These are artists such as:
•One Direction
•Cher lloyd
•Rita Ora
•Katy Perry
•Union J
•Justin Bieber
•Tulisa
•The Wanted
•Taylor Swift
•Jessie J
•Little Mix
•Miley Cyrus

29. The publisher of Top Of The Pops is Immediate Media Company.
The editor of pop of the pops is Peter Hart.

30. An issue of top of the pops costs £2.20, and it comes out in
monthly instalments.

31. Like:
•It uses lots of colours and fonts, which is appropriate to the
target audience.
•Uses artists appropriate to the genre of the magazine.
•Logo design is easily recognisable.
Dislike:
•It doesn’t appeal to me, as the target audience is relatively
young.
•More gossip than music.

32. Target Audience: 17-30.Predominantly
men, with 73% of the magazines readership.
Target Audience: 20+, means the magazine can afford
to be a bit more pricey as the older generation have
jobs and more money.
Target Audience: 18- 25. The main target
audience for Kerrang! is people with a
love for rock music.
Target Audience: 30+. The main target
audience is for rock lovers, and both
genders.
Target Audience: 11- 15 years old. Girls
taking up 85% of the total readership.