1. A music magazine covers music for specific genres.
A music magazine provides entertainment, information
and persuasion (advertising) for its readers.
A music magazine’s readers will be listeners and fellow
artists specific to the genre of the magazine.
2. • Interviews
• Upcoming tours and dates
• Reviews
• Posters
• Artist profile
• New subgenres
• Adverts
• Giveaways
3. • Artists
• Upcoming events
• Behind the scenes photos (eg; Studios)
• Merchandise
• Interviews
• Exclusives
• Instruments
• Conventional branding imagery (eg; Rolling stone makes
the artists where the same style of clothes, sits the same
chair and holds a guitar)
4. • Visual style – Bands/Artists to do with the style
• Language (Depending on genre) – Informal (Slang), Formal
(Jargon)
• Frequency of publication – Weekly/Fortnightly/Monthly
depending of the quality of the magazine
• Cost - £2.50-£4.50
• Format – Thin paper (Cheaper), Glossy finish, Most magazine
nowadays have an online presence like NME which is only online
and doesn’t have a printed copy.
5. • People on the front cover – Musicians related to the main
cover line
• Medium close up to Medium position of the people on the
front cover
• Masthead links the styles of the magazine to the target
audience
• Cover lines along side to main cover line that entices you
to buy the magazine.
6. • To Persuade ( to get you to buy the magazine)
• To Entice ( making it eye catching so you stop to
look at the magazine and then buy it)
• To Relate ( links the genre of music to the target
audience of the magazine)
7. Billboard is a non- specific genre magazine it
is a magazine that covers all types of artists.
You can tell this by the main cover line which
is about the most influential players in music
which could be from any genre. I also know
that Billboard is a America chart music
magazine so it cover what current music is
popular.
8. The target audience is not specific for
this magazine as the influential artist
could be from any genre of music.
It cover what is most current and big
in America at the moment as for
example the other Billboard issue was
covering the musical Frozen. Which
was the current event happening at
the time.
