My Video Diary

Task 2 video diary. Magazines come in all different types of genres. Examples of these are car magazines, gossip magazines, fashion magazines and many more. The magazine genre that I am looking into is the music genre. These genres and sub genres include, rock, pop, jazz classical and hip hop. A music magazine includes music, current artists, the making of music, music culture gossip about music and the music industry. There are lots of very popular music magazines like Top of the pops, NME, rolling stones and many more. NME is associated with rock and indie music. Billboard is associated with pop music. Top of the pops is usually the teenage current music and top charts. Over the past years there have been a drop in magazine sales as people can know look up the information on the internet. To prevent this magazines have made it so you can only subscribe to these magazines which helps the sales a lot as people find it more difficult to then get there information. The biggest magazine publisher in the UK is Bauer, they have over 25 million consumers in the UK itself. Bauer publish very famous music magazines such as MOJO and Q. This may be because, these two genres are popular amongst the target audience. Pop music magazines is also a popular genre as they have the biggest target audience which is generally females ages 13-18 in secondary school. And a secondary target audience of females aged 21+. They are also very popular as they interest a lot of the audience and have many different celebrities that can fit into the pop genre. Chart music today usually revolves around Pop music, so this could be why the magazines are popular. The artists that are on the covers are usually the ones in the limelight at the moment or have issued an album or a song or have new about their career. This helps them a lot with spreading the word of there album or new single. Overall, I found out that pop and rock genres are very popular within the music magazine industry.