Analysis of Music Magazines

By Gemma Whitehead

Analysis of Music Magazines (montage)

This magazine is well known and recognized as more of a rock magazine. The tag line underneath ‘NME’ says National Music Express but is covered up by the band so this makes the band look more important as the band name is larger than the magazine name and it is in the centre of the front cover.

NME magazine really take into account the theme colours which are red, black, white and yellow which shows consistency throughout every issue which ties the magazine together which in my opinion is very effective and I will apply this to my music magazine.

Rolling Stones magazines are aimed at a bigger audience and older age group than NME. Rolling Stones is an American magazine that includes music , movies and actors. So unlike NME its not just a music magazine its more about the successful people in Hollywood. Basically if you are on the front cover of Rolling Stones then you have made it big.

The layout of the front cover is quite simple as everything is on the left third apart from the name of the band (the Jonas brothers) which makes them stand out.

Q magazine focuses heavily on its ‘freebies’ as well as the artist on the front. It wants people to take an interest in music rather than just celebrities who think they can sing. This comes across on the front cover as the biggest text is the artists name and also the ‘free inside’ text.

Remix is a less well known music magazine and it prides itself in presentation and different colours for each issue unlike NME and Q magazines. They also like to use decorative characters(fonts) and play around with different effects and graphics as is shown with Goldfrapp. There is a minimal amount of writing on this front cover which makes the artist stand out , without using any very strong colours such as black or red, I like this effect as it draws a different audience to the music industry.