Rolling Stone Magazine
Rolling Stones magazine was founded November 9, 1967 and is part of the Wenner Media group. Published bi-weeky it is an American music magazine but also covers liberal politics and popular culture. The type of music it covers isn't specific to one genre and includes pop, alternative, rock and soul with most other areas of music covered.
In the 1990's the magazine was criticised as it changed it's content to attract younger readers often focusing on young television or film actors and pop music. This led to criticism that the magazine was emphasising style over substance. In recent years, the magazine has resumed its traditional mix of content, including in-depth political stories, and has seen its circulation increase.
This magazine is a good one to look at as it is very popular and sells well world wide and has become famous for creating posters out of popular covers and has lots of information available for you to research the magazine.
The stars that appear on the front cover such as Adele attract both genders and the age range of people buying this magazine ranges from 18-30.
NME Magazine
NME magazine was first released 7 March 1952. It is a UK based, weekly music magazine and is part of IPC media edited by Krissi Murison. NME stands for New Musical Express and originally started as a music newspaper later turning into a magazine format nearer the 1980's. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart and in the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.
NME is a very popular music magazine and sells well across the UK and from it's success NME has other projects including the NME awards and NME tours. The target audience of the magazine is teenagers, both boys and girls, aged between 15 and 25. The music genres it tends to cover are rock, alternative and indie.
MOJO Magazine
MOJO magazine is a monthly music magazine first published November 1993. It's a British magazine based in London and is part of Bauer media group.
MOJO is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom. Following the success of the magazine Q, publishers Emap were looking for a title which would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music.
The magazine is noted for it's in-depth cover of both popular and cult music acts, covering classic rock bands like The Beatles as well as newer and left-field acts.
Because of it's varieties of music genres and time periods the age group of the magazine I would say is men from the ages of 18-40.
It is a very popular magazine and is becoming more well known.
Q Magazine
Q magazine is a popular music magazine published in the UK. The first issue was released October 1986 and is part of the Bauer media group and is edited by Paul Rees.
Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth were dismayed by the music press of the time, which they felt was ignoring a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology. Q was first published in October 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing.
It focuses on more mature music as it's aimed at the older generation and the front cover above which has a semi-naked picture of Lily Allen suggests its aimed at men aged 30+.
Below are other music magazines which are around today, some popular and some not well known.
top l-r: Billboard magazine, Kerrang magazine
bottom l-r: Top of the Pops magazine, WIRE magazine.
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