Featured Stars

Alot of the stars featured in the magazines Q and Billboard are worldwide stars and are from all over the globe with artists such as Justin Bieber, Adele and many others. Whereas Top of the pops features more british based artists with some American acts featured.

Q

Q is aimed at middle class people, it is also aimed at young adults and older teenagers as the style of the magazine suggests that it isn't suitable for younger audience's and the artists shown uses more explicit language compared to other artists aimed at different genres. Q is a unisex magazine and from the style doesn't have a main targeted gender. 

Billboard

Billboard is produced weekly at a premium priced so it is aimed at people who are once again upper class. It is aimed a young adults from around 18-30 and features mature content which wouldn't be suitable for most people under the age of 18. It is a unisex magazine and isn't aimed at a certain gender

Top Of The Pops

Top Of The Pops is aimed at working/middle class people. it is aimed at the younger generation from around 7-14 years old and features quiz's and games aimed at a younger audience, it also has artists featured that create age appropriate content. It is mainly aimed at females as the main house style colour is pink and it likes to focus on girls fashion and male crushes.

Owners of Style Model

Q

Q is owned by Bauer Media Group, who are a worldwide media production company who own various Magazines, Radio Stations, Tv Programs and more all over the world. One magazine owned by Bauer is Kerrang, and many other aren't music based. 

Billboard

Billboard is owned by Prometheus Global Media, they're known worldwide but based in the United States and most of the content is based off American Artists. Prometheus own 4 magazines that are all based on different genres but are also known worldwide. 

Top Of The Pops

Top Of The Pops is owned by Immediate Media Company who is one of the most well known Media based business' in the UK. It also owns the BBC's magazines and many others  aswell which have a range of genre's and hobbies. 

Style Models

The three magazines I'll be choosing to looking at in more detail are Q, Billboard and Top Of The Pops.

Q

Q is a magazine that provides content on the latest artists and the genre is popular culture. Each magazine is £4.20 per issue and issues are distributed once a month and currently have 354 issues. They have a big logo which is simple but well recognised as it is just a big "Q" on the left hand side of the magazine. 

Billboard

Billboard is a magazine that consists of contents of the latest artists and the genre is popular culture. The magazine is £5.50 per issue and has 127 volumes and 36 issues, it produces a new magazine weekly as it provides weekly updated content for readers. It uses the same consistent logo to keep a consistent house style and to allow the readers to recognise the brand. 

 

Top of The Pops

Top of the pops is a popular culture magazine that is aimed at young teenagers and children and provides age suitable content and artists aimed at teens and children. They're monthly magazines and priced at £4.75 for each magazine, they also include other content not including music such as youtuber's to try and expand their audience. They have produced 269 issues and the magazine is run by the BBC.

What Magazines Interest Me

The genre that interests me is the popular culture genre as I enjoy and know a lot about that genre as it is my most listened to and also the genre I have most knowledge on

Magazine Genre's

Each music magazine is targeted towards a certain genre of music to make the content specific to the audiences preferred genre.
The magazine examples i used provide array of genre's.
Q - Q's genre provides content on all the latest music and mainly uses artists that have recently brought out music that is popular and within the top 100
Billboard - billboards genre is similar to Q's and mainly uses content which is current and popular
Kerrang - kerrangs genre is rock and only features content for all rock fans
Mojo - Mojo's genre is also rock but more classic rock for fans of older content
We Pop - We pop is a pop genre aimed at younger children which provides content on the latest pop artists with popular hits
Top Of The Pops - Top of the pops is a magazine that provides content of the music in the charts and provides content from the artists features in the charts
Rolling Stones - Rolling Stones magazine also features popular content and features content from artists who are currently popular

Music Magazines Examples