Market Research- Music Magazines

Owned by IPC Media

IPC Media own a large variety of magazines, including: Now, TV Weekly and Country Life.

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With more than 60 iconic media brands, IPC creates content for multiple platforms, across print, online, mobile, tablets and events. As the UK's leading consumer magazine publisher they engage with 26m UK adults - almost two thirds of UK women and 42% of UK men. The award winning portfolio of websites reaches over 25 million users globally every month.

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The New Musical Express, now known as NME, is a music publication in the UK, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in the 14 November 1952 edition. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.

Q started out as a music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom. Originally it was to be called Cue (named after the act of cueing a record to play), but the name was changed so that it wouldn't be mistaken for a snooker magazine.

Founders Mark Ellen and David Hepworth felt the music press of the time ignored a generation of older music buyers who were buying CDs — then still a new technology — from artists such as Paul Simon, Level 42, and Dire Straits. Modelled after Rolling Stone, Q was first published in 1986, setting itself apart from much of the other music press with monthly production and higher standards of photography and printing, with an emphasis on style.

Q Magazine

The tagline ‘boldly go where no band has gone before’ relates to man’s first steps on the moon, suggesting that Muse will be doing something that no band has ever attempted.

Matt Bellamy is the focal point of the cover; he is staring into the camera. This draws the audience in persuades them to buy the magazine.

Masthead- The word Muse is the most prominent lettering on the screen, suggesting that the main article will feature the band.

•Q have also created a radio station to keep music fans up to date on the latest records. After a few years as a radio jukebox, Q Radio launched in June 2008 as a full service radio station with a complete roster. Shows and presenters include Drivetime with Danielle Perry and Q the 80s with Matthew Rudd. The station is transmitted on the digital television networks in the UK and online. •Coldplay were involved with the launch of the station by giving an exclusive interview on Q's flagship programme QPM on the launch day.•It is based in Birmingham with Kerrang! 105.2 after moving from London in 2009.

The Q Awards are the UK's annual music awards run by this music magazine. Since they began in 1990, the Q Awards have become one of Britain's biggest and best publicised music awards. Locations for the awards ceremony include Abbey Road Studios and, more recently, The Park Lane Ballroom.

Q Radio Station

The Q Awards

“Kerrang! will ensure that we are constantly appealing to our spectrum of readers. From the younger teenage readers who are more open to different genres of rock music – from EMO to Thrash etc, to the readers who respect Kerrang! as an authority when it comes to our scene’s heritage bands.”

- James McMahon, Editor

Kerrang! was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper. Named after the onomatopoeic word that derives from the sound made when playing a power chord on an electric guitar, Kerrang! was initially devoted to the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and the rise of hard rock acts. In the early 2000s it became the best-selling British music newspaper.

Kerrang! Magazine

In 2000, Bauer Radio (then Emap) launched Kerrang! as a digital radio station, across the UK. The station bid on a number of new FM licences including Manchester & East Midlands but lost out, the West Midlands licence was however successful. The station launched on 10 June 2004 originally from Birmingham City Football Club and it then moved to a dedicated studio in Lionel Street, Birmingham near the BT Tower, and broadcasts from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter but the main station is in Manchester. Karren Brady was made chairman in 2003.

Kerrang! Radio Station

Slogan: Everything that rocks

Kerrang! TV is a digital television station owned by Box Television, part of the Bauer Media Corporation, that launched in 2001.

Another integral part of Kerrang’s multi-platforming is their annual tour, usually occurring in January or February. It visits the smaller venues, such as the 02 Academy, Brixton and Manchester Academy, which is where the majority of the target audience see live bands. It features many of the bands that appear in the magazine; previous bands including Bullet For My Valentine and Sum 41.

Kerrang! TV

Kerrang! Tour

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Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine published every two weeks which is devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture. In 1967, Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco, California, by Jann Wenner who is still the ‒magazine's chief editor and music critic, Ralph J. Gleason. ‒

Wenner founded Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. to produce a new biweekly music magazine that would be called Rolling Stone. The new publication relied heavily on volunteer labour, as well as donated furniture and rent-free office space in the loft above its printing company. A distinctive logo was designed by legendary psychedelic poster artist Rick Griffin. In addition the company also operates web sites for its magazines Men's Journal, Rolling Stone, and US Weekly.

Other Wenner owned American magazines:

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A little piece of history according to Egmont…

On the 18th May 1878 a 17-year-old boy found a coin on a Copenhagen pavement. At the time the boy, whose name was Egmont H Petersen, was on his way to start his own printing business. As he was using his mother’s money to buy his first printing press, finding the coin seemed like a lucky omen.

This fairy tale came true. Egmont ran his own business from his mother’s kitchen while it grew and grew. Soon he had to move his printing operation into a bigger space. Again and again. In about a dozen years he was recognised as Denmark’s finest printer, by appointment to the Royal Danish Court.

Over the next century and more the company continued to grow. Books, magazines, films. Characters in films, TV, magazines, books, ebooks and apps. Technology changed beyond all recognition. Egmont stayed true to its constant desire to encourage reading, to tell stories, to entertain people.

In 2012 Egmont Group is a world-leading media organisation in more than 30 countries, with a structure like no other. It is owned by a charitable foundation set up by the original Egmont H Petersen and still firmly committed to ethical principles.

Egmont UK is part of Egmont Group – one of Denmark’s oldest companies, one of Scandinavia’s leading media groups.In the UK we publish books, magazines, ebooks and apps for children and their families. We aim to inspire more and more children to read. To do that we have three areas of expertise:

•Egmont PressFiction and Picture Books - aims to turn children into passionate readers and writers into successful authors. •Egmont Publishing Group - BooksCharacter Books - aims to encourage the habit of reading through the very best in licensed character publishing. •Egmont Publishing Group - MagazinesAims to create magazines that are fun for children to read because you learn better when you’re having fun.

An example publication:

We Love Pop is Egmont’s only publication aimed at a teenage audience. Issued monthly including the popular chart bands: Little Mix, The Wanted and One Direction.

We Love Pop is a monthly mag for pop loving teenagers, or anyone with very good tastes in magazines. We have the best free gifts, the funniest interviews, the coolest fashion, ten gorgeous posters each time, a different celebrity agony aunt every issue and loads more general pop amazingness that you won’t find anywhere else. You won't want to miss it. So don't? Available in all good newsagents, supermarkets, WH Smiths, Boots, Superdrug and Easons in Ireland.