This document summarizes survey results for a student designing a music magazine. It found that 58% of respondents were female and most were between 16-18 years old. The most popular existing music magazine was Rolling Stone. Most respondents would prefer to read a magazine annually and were willing to pay £2.50 maximum. The most popular genres were reggae, hip hop and indie. Black and white were the most preferred color schemes.

1. Gender
This result shows that my audience will, evidently, be
mostly females. I chose to ask random people and
found that, naturally, there will be more girls.
However, I will still aim my music magazine towards
males and females as the ratio of both is very close.
Boys, 42%
Girls,
58%

2. Age
As the people questioned were all students in St.
Marylebone Sixth Form, they were all obviously
going to be aged between 16 and 18. This means my
magazine must appeal to this age group. To do this,
I’ll try and make it look current and relative to them.
I thought showing the ages separately would help as
sixteen year olds have very different mind sets than
eighteen year olds.
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3. Favourite music magazine
This graph shows that the majority of people don’t read
music magazines. This means that I will have to make sure
mine appeals to those who aren’t familiar with music
magazines. However, from those who do read, the most
favoured is Rolling Stone. Luckily, I also like this magazine
and it’s already my inspiration for designing one.
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Rolling Stone
Kerrang
NME
I don't read any

4. How often would people read one?
It is quite evident that most of the people aren’t really
interested in music magazines, as they would rather
read one every year. I then will have to make sure
that mine is interesting enough to, maybe, change
their minds. I am aware that my most of my readers
will be new to music magazines, therefore I will have
to make mine quite welcoming and very appealing.

5. Maximum price
Most of the people have would pay £2.50 maximum for a
music magazine. This is the cheapest price out of the
options. This could be because most aren’t as familiar
meaning they wouldn’t want to pay more for something
they’re not that interested in. Or this could be because
ones that they have read aren’t worth spending more on.
This means that I will have to make sure mine is worth
above this price, and hopefully, it will be.
£2.50
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£3.50
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6. Genre
The top three genres that are favoured are reggae, hip
hop and indie. As the results are very close, I’ll do
research on each of them and choose which one
myself. The least are pop, rock and jazz. Therefore, I
won’t base my magazine on any of those.
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Pop Rock Reggae Hip Hop Indie Jazz

7. Most played song
This was a very open question, so there was no way I could
record the results. However, the reason I asked was so that I
could include it in my magazine as the top most played songs.
Colour Scheme
Most of the people picked the colour black as their preferred
colour scheme. This is followed closely by white. This is positive
result as the colours black and white go really well together can
create a really good effect. It also compliments the ideas I have
for my design. The least liked is green, so I will avoid using the
colour as much.
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Black White Red Pink Blue Green Purple