This magazine focuses on pop, indie, and light rock music. The magazine is called Q, originally intended to be called CUE. This issue features Coldplay on the cover amid rumors of their breakup. The skyline graphic on the cover is consistent across issues with the slogan "the essential music guide." The masthead has also remained consistent. While other magazines cram their covers, Q leaves space for their large logo. The main cover story is about Coldplay, while other lines bring attention to competitions and new artists. The exclusive story is "on tour with U2," which could be seen as rivalry with Coldplay. The main cover image shows Coldplay, suggesting strength and superiority through the photographer's work.

1. The Front Cover This magazine focuses more on pop, indeed and light rock groups. Q magazine was originally going to be called CUE magazine, as in a DJ CUEING a song. But they decided to call it Q magazine for whatever their reason. This particular issue features Coldplay and there reunion. Skyline- The skyline on this magazine never changes “the essential music guide” is there slogan and will remain that for the upcoming future. The skyline in this and every issue always ties in with the Q logo. Mast head- the mast head of Q magazine never has changed, it has always been the same colour, size and position. As you can see, the creators of Q magazine do not cram their front cover up as much as other mainstream magazines and this gives them the freedom to allow them to have a large logo. Cover lines- On the front page there isn’t much choice when it come to cover lines. The main cover line is about Coldplay and the magazine producers have tried to bring our attention to it. Rather than packing the font cover with competitions chances and new things on the street they have aimed the whole front cover towards the centre. All together there are 4 cover lines which will be glimpsed at but not as much as the main headline. They have used large text to highlight the importance of Coldplay and its cover line. Exclusive- the exclusive in this issue is “on tour with u2” which could be seen as rivalry with Coldplay. Main image- The main image is of Coldplay! This magazine was released a couple of week after rumours said they were heading to a break up. This image suggests strength, fear and superiority. This is something cleverly thought up by the photographer. Contents page The odd thing about this contents page is that there is no relation to any of the topics on the front, now this could be human error or continued else where in the magazine but it is extremely rare that this happens. The content page features heavily with Mika who is a pop legend and has many articles related to him in the magazine. Q magazine is a mainstream magazine so many pop stars will appear in it time after time. This contents page is very easy to use and understand, it navigates you directly to the leading articles with clearly marked bullet numbers and clear bold text. Also the colour of the text remains the same and is not differential which improves reading performance.