History of a music magazine

History

The paper's first issue was published on 7 March 1952 after the Musical Express and Accordion Weekly was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kinn, and relaunched as the New Musical Express. It was initially published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the U.S. magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart. The first of these was, in contrast to more recent charts, a top twelve sourced by the magazine itself from sales in regional stores around the UK. The first number one was "Here In My Heart" by Al Martino.

Typical content

The typical content of a music magazine would include articles from music inspired people and photo shoots of popular bands\artists. The magazine is usually around 70 pages long and focuses on rock and guitar music. One of the first few pages there are news articles on recent events and music industry gossip. At the end of the magazine there are pages of advertisement, advertising upcoming music events.

Typical reader

There are 253,000 readers of NME, 153,000 of which are part of group ABC1 and 99,000 are of group C2DE. The age range of readers is quite broad and therefore isn't as usefully as others. 70% of the readers are male and 30% are female. The typical reader of NME would be those interested in the certain genre of music. The magazine focuses on guitar music and rock music. Those who play these instruments or enjoy listening to the genre of music would be the typical reader of this type of magazine.

House style

NME's house style layout is always very compact and busy. They include many images on their front cover, to look full and over flowing. It sometimes looks as though they can not fit everything on to the page. The NMW masthead is always located in the top left hand corner of the page. The language used on the front cover is very informal and chatty. They speak to the reader as though they are a mate, this relaxes the reader and makes the information more interesting.

This is my contents page for my preliminary task of a school magazine.

These images are my research photos for my front cover of my music magazine. (un-editted)