Music magazines

Music Magazines

A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music only. Music magazines come in different genres such as Pop, Rap, rock and other types of music. These types of magazine have been published in Britain for a long time and one magazine is still producing issues since their first brought out in 1903. this magazine is called BMG standing for Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar and its aim of the magazine is to teach people how to play instruments like these. However, these days we have magazines like Q and NME which suit music lovers who just want to read about different bands and artists, which bring in more readers in than BMG and older types.

Different magazines have different genres and these different genres have different codes and conventions linked to them. For instance magazines suited to pop music would be more likely to be linked to girls aged 8-15. These types magazines would contain things like interviews with people like Cheryl Cole or Jessie J and other types of singers younger girls look up to, these types would also include posters of the latest boy bands for the audience to cut out. Whereas in magazines like Kerrang! am more Rock type of magazine would be more mature and have a darker colour choice, these types of magazine would contain segments on the current bands and events coming up.

Recently magazines have took huge decrease in sales due to the internet and being able to find everything there so people don't have to go out and spend money on a magazine, when everything is conveniently placed on a website that can be accessed for free and on demand.
I myself do not buy music magazines as I can access everything without leaving my house.