Music Magazine

The Success and Failure of Music Magazines

Due to my recent research into the popularity of music magazines, there seems to have been a major downfall for them. Maybe this is because we don't need them as much anymore? After all we do have the internet at our fingertips. Even the most popular magazines have their own web page to back themselves up.

Taking into account all of the music magazines that are still successful today, I researched into their recent readership and circulation. NME, seems to have fallen incredibly compared to other magazines, with less than 34,000 in circulation. Where as Q magazine seems to be at an all time high with circulation of 113,000. Maybe this is because NME doesn't seem to vary its genre's of music, along with the same of colour schemes and puff/plugs.

I have now realised that if a music magazine is to be successful, then it needs to have varied genre's of music included, Im not saying from one extreme to another, but it would be sensible as it opens up a whole new window of readers. The design also plays another major part, by having an appealing front cover and cover lines, you could attract absolutely anyone to your magazine. This I will bear in mind when creating mine.