Immediate Media Company publishes over 50 magazine titles and employs 750 staff. Top of the Pops magazine is published monthly focusing on pop music charts, gossip, fashion and more. Originally targeted between ages 12-15, it now reaches a wider audience including parents feeling nostalgic. The document discusses choosing a pop music genre for a magazine and researching Top of the Pops magazine published by Immediate Media Company.

1. Choose a sub-genre and research into a
music magazine and publisher

2.  My sub genre will be Pop because I listen to
this sort of music regularly and have the
adequate knowledge about this genre to be
able to make my magazine fit into the genre
as well as possible.

3.  Top of the pops is a magazine which is published on a
monthly basis
 It was originally marketed as the missing element
between Smash Hits and NME, but this changed over
time with less music content and a drastic change to
a small niche audience of young girls around between
the ages of 12-15. It now features chart information,
star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song
lyrics and posters. It is a supplementary magazine for
the TV show Top of the Pops until recentlymagazine
was launched in February 1995 and is famous for
giving girl group The Spice Girls their nicknames. The
magazine has now become iconic for the old TV show
Top of the Pops so it reaches out to a wider audience
of parents who may feel nostalgic and want to buy
the magazine for their children.

4.  Immediate Media Company Limited is a
combined publishing house containing the former
assets of BBC Magazines.
 It publishes over 50 magazine titles and over 30
websites, and it employs 750 staff
 Immediate Media Company’s magazine titles
include 23 former BBC Magazines titles published
under long-term licence from BBC Worldwide.
 They have a good reputation with the BBI would
probably not choose this publisher for my
company because although they have a good
reputation of success they are mainly associated
with the BBC and my magazine will not be a part
of the BBC.