Morgan Clough

Music Questionnaire Results I made a questionnaire to find out if people consume music magazines and if so what attracts them to it and how they want to buy it. I gave my questionnaires to 10 people within Eccles College of different age ranges to make sure I got a different set of results. Also to get a different set of results I gave the questionnaire to different genders to also get different views on the favourite genres or type of magazine they want to read. The results of my questionnaire will be shown through the charts and paragraphs following this.

Favourite Genre

PopRockHeavy MetalSoulCountryIndieRnBOther

My results showed me that the most popular genres of the people who answered my questionnaire in Eccles College were Heavy Metal and Indie. Through the increase of popularity of Indie music within the music industry, this is shown through this chart and the results of my questionnaire. The results may have been different if there were more females taking part in the questionnaire. 60% of the results were from males and 40% from females. If the percentage of females would have been bigger I would assume that Pop and RnB would have been more popular. The other category is becoming increasingly popular which is genres such as Dubstep which over the past few years has become more common to the music industry.

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Consumption of Magazines

Every dayOnce a weekOnce a monthHardly everNever

The results of this question showed me that music listeners don’t consume music magazines and if they do it is very rarely. Music listeners normally use Web 2.0 technology such as YouTube, Myspace, Facebook to get information on their favourite bands and artists. Through the release of YouTube in 2004 Web 2.0 technology has become increasingly popular as people download their music and watch videos through this.

What attracts you to a magazine?

Front coverArticlesHouse StyleOther

My results show me that the front cover is the main appeal which attracts somebody to a magazine. This shows that whoever the main picture is on the front cover will result in whether somebody buys the magazine or not. So if a rock audience seen an image of the Rolling stones they would most

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likely buy that magazine over the one with an image of Justin Bieber on. Also what attracts people to the magazine is the articles. My results show me that the House Style of the magazine effects about 20% of people buying magazines. From the results I got of the first question the Rock genre is most preferred, if the results from this shown that most people like a Pop genre then maybe the house style would have been considered more and appealed more to the target audience.

Which music magazines do you buy?

NMEKerrangMixmagRolling StonesOther

My results tell me that over half the percentage of the people who filled out the questionnaire chose ‘other’ most people then wrote that they didn’t read music magazines. This shows me that web 2.0 technology is where most people get their information about music and music releases from. This could also be from the age range of people whom filled out the questionnaire. If more people of an older generation filled the questionnaire out I may have had different results.

Age Range

0-1516-2526-4041-6061+

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The results I got from this questionnaire don’t influence the design of my magazine because most of the results I consumed from this questionnaire are from a Rock/Alternative audience where as I will target my magazine towards a Pop/RnB Genre. The audience for my magazine will be perhaps more for a female audience because of the Pop genre of the magazine so the results would be somewhat different. They affect the layout of my genre because the results from the question ‘What attracts you to a magazine’ tells me what the audience look for in a magazine so I will carefully take the results from that into consideration.