Here are three examples of music magazine covers from different genres:

The magazine I will be analysing is “Black Beat”, judging from the colourful front cover this magazine attracts young people aging from 15-20 we can clearly highlight the genre it specialise in from the title “Black Beats” meaning it only associates with black artists however may drop in a few stories about other genres to keep the magazine diverse in their audience. From both of these magazines we can tell that “Black Beat” usually covers their page in as much colours and different font in order to attract younger audience, they also talk about current artists that they know young people would be interested in. The magazine with the image of “Bow Wow” on it has less text this is so that audience instead of reading can know who is involved in the magazine just by looking at their photograph, this promotional method works good as customers from a distance may not be able to work out the text on the cover but they will be able to see the image and become engaged as to what the magazine has to say about 

them.

The cover also states that available inside the magazine is not just music stories but also the latest fashion trends, audience may find this absorbing as they always want to keep up with the latest fashion. It also provides competitions for customers to take part in “Win a date with Young Steff”. The background for “Black Beat” is usually plain so that the background doesn’t clash with the writing and image as they use a lot of text colours, fonts, sizes and compositions. The title is also useful in promoting as it is big and bold and uses alliteration so that it is catchy and memorable, also uses informal, slang language in order to relate to young people i.e. “Beat and Shut Up”.   

Keyshia Cole’s magazine is themed in order to suit her femininity using lots of pink and white and purple this is seen as stereotype, while Bow Wow’s magazine is themed with a close up image of his face causing it to take up the majority of the page showing that he is the main storyline and shows his authority by claiming the majority of the page with his face, while Keyshia Cole takes up less space although still letting the audience know she is important by making her centre of the magazine. At the top of Keyshia Cole’s magazine a bit of the paper is purposely torn off revelling a previous member of  “High School Musical” member Corbin Bleu, this is done to show the immaturity of the magazine as it targets young  people it create realism as young people are usually seen as careless therefore the torn paper represents their youth.