Thursday, 19 September 2013

About Music Magazines

Music Magazine

A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoot, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a cover mount with recorded music.

The main music magazines around the globe are, NME Rolling Stone, Q and Mojo. The main reason for this is that they have been going for so long, NME has been around for about 60 years.

Melody Maker was first published in 1926 for musicians. It's 1928 "honours list" is regarded as the U.K 's first music chart. the final issue of the magazine was published in december 2000 as it was merged into long-standing rival and IPC Media sister publication New Musical Express.






Genres:

. Rock
. House
. R&B
. Hip Hop 
. Electro
. Classical

Popular Music Magazines:
Music magazines have been publishing for over a century now. One of the best and well known magazines of all time is NME. Other popular music magazines within the UK include Kerrang, MOJO, Q. Major music magazines in the United States include Vibe, Rolling Stone and Class. 


The Future of Music Magazines:

Music magazines don't have much future, With new technology being introduced such as phone apps people are able to retrieve the same information for free  or at a small expence. They do not really have much more of a future and should put their sales into applications with pay monthly subscriptions. However in some cases people prefer the 'hard copy' and are usually a older genre who don't have a smart phone.


What Audience do the Music Magazines relate to ?

Most Music Magazines dedicate themselves around Rock and R&B like NME. The target audience  NME are aimed at is the younger generation of adults. through looking at the cover we see allot of young bands, The cover also shows a lot about the content of the magazine and what the magazine will be about. By showing more well known younger artists on the front cover, the larger the audience it will attract to the product.

1 comment:

  1. Some good use of hyperlinks which I like but there is scope gfor a much broader use of images than you have currently used. A range of the types of music magazines, particularly the lesser known ones such as Melody Maker would significantly enhance your work.

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