Magazine Research

For our band we need to create a magazine cover to promote or band. To do this successfully, we researched into the recent and popular magazine covers for singers.

The most famous music magazine with some of the best, on trend singers on there is Billboard. Billboard is a really famous music magazine and is the most known with young adults. It includes the most popular artists ( eg Chance The Rapper, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, etc) and popular events (eg MTV awards, Grammy awards). The designs of the cover change according to the artist and the artists synergy. The artist is usually on the cover to promote their new album or single.

EXAMPLE:

This is the issue with Niall Horan as the main feature. The synergy of this cover is bright colours, summery themes, and a happy feel good atmosphere. This synergy reflects Niall's most recent songs and his personality to the readers.

















Another music magazine we found was offBEAT. offBEAT is a magazine that features less known artists and artists from different genres. For example they have Blues singers, Jazz singers and some less known pop bands. This magazine had a really fun and popping theme to their covers. The band's colours synergy is carried through on the covers.

EXAMPLE:

This is an example of offBEAT magazine cover. This cover features a jazz artist. The cover is simple and brings the main artist into focus. It also contains in a slightly messy way, texts stating what else will be in the magazine.


We decided that we would use offBEAT magazine covers as inspirations for our cover. We decided this because offBEAT features less known bands from all genres and has a fun and slightly chaotic feel to the covers. The magazine won't be as well known as Billboard is to our target audience, but our target audience is young adults who are fans of the indie-rock genre so will buy this brand of magazine to get information on this genre.