I gave out a survey to 20 teenagers aged 16-19 to help inform my new music magazine. The survey asked about music preferences, magazine content interests, and demographics. Most respondents listened to pop music and preferred magazines with more images over text. The majority agreed that the target audience for the magazine should be ages 13 to 21. This feedback will help me design an engaging magazine for younger music fans.

2. I gave out a survey to 20 people, 10 males
and 10 females, to help me clear up any
confusions with my music magazine. It also
help me find out which genre was popular
amongst teenagers aged 16-19, since that
was the only range of ages I gave it to. Also
some of my questions were open and some
of them were closed, I added open
questions because I also wanted to get
some views and opinions, to help me with
my music magazine.

3. Gender
Male Female
50% 50%

4. I gave my questionnaire out to 10 boys
and 10 girls across the school, making it
random sampling, the reason I gave it out
equally to the amount of boys and girls is
because I didn’t want my results to be
biased and also I wanted to get both
genders view and responses on the
questions I was going to ask. I also
wanted to see if gender affects what
genre music you listen to and other factors
like buying music magazines.

5. Age
19
18 5%
20% 16
45%
17
30%

6. As you can see a majority of the students
who answered the questionnaire were 16-
19 year olds. This links to my target
audience as they are the younger
generation. I also wanted to see if there
was a correlation between age and what
type of music you listen to. I didn’t ask
anyone older than 19 because it would be
less likely to fit in with my with my research
as it’s less likely for people 30+ (or younger)
to listen to pop music.

7. Ethnicity
20%
30%
Asian British
African
25% Chinese
10%
Indian
15% White

8. I gave my questionnaire out to a various
amount of ethnicity to see if that affected
my results. What I realised was, that it didn’t
affect the results at all, teenagers shared
the same music taste, this could be
because they hang around with people
(different ethnicities) who share the same
taste.

9. Sales
5% 5%
20% Rock
30%
Pop
5% Metal
5% R 'n' B
5% Soul
Folk
25%
Hip-hop
Other

10. Since I’m doing a Pop music Magazine, this
survey helped as a majority of the people I
gave the survey out to, liked Pop Music.
Some people crossed over through genre
as the preferred Pop as well as Hip-Hop or
maybe R ‘n’ B. This showed me people
enjoyed more than one genre and their
taste varied as they enjoyed listening to
many genres.

11. 0% 0% 0% Target Audience
20%
13-21
21-31
80% 31-41
41+

12. 80% of the people I gave the survey to
agreed to the target audience being 13-
21, which is the younger generation. 20%
thought it should be older, but when
doing my research and others had also
found out that pop music has a younger
target audience oppose to something
like indie music which can go 30 and
over. In conclusion, this helped me set
my target audience for my music
magazine.

13. Text or images
30%
More Images
70% More Text

14. Most people agreed that they liked more
images than text, this could because
teenagers are less likely to read
something if there is a lot of text and
more likely to look at something with
more pictures and something that
attracts their eye. This made me cautious
about how much text I put in my double
page spread as I don’t want my
audience to get bored.

15. This was an open question, where I got
many responses like competitions, latest
music as well as free music, and free live
music opportunities. All of these things
were something that involved the
audience to get interactive, this gave
me ideas on how to entice my audience
in to buying it by putting something that
gets the audience interactive on the
front page of my music magazine.

16. Buying Magazines
25% 30%
Yes
No
15% Sometimes
30%
Never

17. Most people I gave my questionnaire had
at least bought a music magazine
once, while others had never bought
music magazines. This could be because
everything they need to know that is in
the magazine may already be on the
internet or that good quality magazine
range from a price about £4-5, which not
everyone can buy, as it isn’t a necessity
for teenagers as they also have phones.

18. This was also an open question allowing
people to give their views on what they
think music magazines require most. Most
of them say images and information on
the artist and giving something the
reader to look forward too. They also
said a good layout was required as it
made everything easier to read.

19. Professional Front Page
45%
55%
Yes
No

20. This question was closed and open, as I
asked people to give a reason why
people thought that. Most people said
no as they said that good content and
reliability was most important. Some also
said yes, because they said it attracts
the readers eye and makes them
reason on more and looked forward to
more.