Billboard magazine analyzes Beyoncé's latest album and concert. The front cover features a close-up photo of Beyoncé looking at the camera to grab readers' attention. Inside, a double-page spread contains black and white photos of Beyoncé in different poses and outfits with a quote from her interview. The target audience is teens aged 16 to young adults aged 26 interested in various music genres, as the magazine provides chart updates across rock, pop, R&B and more in a mature layout.

1. Analysis of Billboard magazine: Beyonce
By Rina Bansal

2. Front Cover…
-Title and logo of -Medium close-up of
the magazine the artist
-Looking directly
towards the camera:
way of grabbing the
readers attention to
-Cover lines the magazine
-Colloquial language and
Informal towards the reader
-Advertises other
articles that are inside the
-Advertisement of the
magazine, however does
artists concert or live
not give a lot of insight to
performance
them
-Bold, Italic and seriff
-Has used the layout of the
font
‘magic C’ to make it appear
more professional and
appropriate for the target
audience -Website of the magazine is given
to the reader so they can receive
more views and where the reader
can receive more information
-Artists name is the
main focus of the
front cover: large font -Barcode, price and issue date on corner of
size, bold, seriff font which page, slightly larger compared to other magazines:
stands out from the page easy to see the issue date therefore the reader knows
if the information/gossip is recent or old

3. Contents Page…
-Lists of what
songs are -Logo -Bold, sans
popular in the seriff; however
charts is a gothic-like
-Categorised into font
albums, songs
and singles
-Long shot
-Model is not
-It shows new and
looking directly at
recent most
the camera and is
popular albums,
not in a fixed posed;
songs etc which
more of a natural
is updated weekly
shot (laughing).
for the readers
However, clothing
suggests glamour
and recent style-
could suggest the
target audience
-Stuck to a colour theme of
white and blue; makes it more
subtle and professional
-The small use of yellow is -Different artists
done to highlight the category
of genres that
names; makes them stand out
juxtapose; therefore
is targeted at people
-Suggests the website of the magazine; to have more who are interested in
information on the recent updates of the artists of this various genres of
music
particular music industry

4. Double-page spread of article…
-Background is full -Long shot (can see
long shots of the whole body
artist in different position)
poses -Looking directly at
-This sets the whole towards the camera
theme of the page suggests she is
by what she is talking directly
wearing and her towards the reader
body posture and
the effect of it being
in black and white
-Stuck to a colour
theme of white and
blue; makes it more
subtle and
professional
-The artist’s outfit
-Colloquial language (red dress) then
stands out from the
-Name of the celebrity
page, therefore she is
interviewed is the main focus on the
highlighted double-page spread
-Whole text is capital-
stands out from the
page and suggests it is
the title of the article
-Advertisements and links from
where the journalist had her -Anecdote from the interview that
sources of information (type of the artist has quoted
bibliography)

5. Target Audience…
The target audience for Billboard magazine varies from young teens, from the age of
16, to young adults, at the age of 26. This is because the magazine provides its
readers with the latest updates from the charts, but of different and various types of
genres.
This is to widen the range of the target audience as it acquired to people who listen to
different genres such as; rock, metal, pop, R n B and plenty more.
As well as this, the layout of the magazine itself it very mature as it is not over-
crowded with images of teen bands and other artists, or even consisting of a colour
pallet which clashes.
Furthermore, it does not advertise news and gossip of the artist’s lives, but only
conveys the weekly update of the music charts. Although, it also conveys artist’s stylist
tips and what not.