NMEThe NME is a music magazine aim at 18-24 year old males and these days very colourful and attractive magazine, however in its early day it used to be the NME newspaper. It used to take its business very seriously and sometimes making some controversial issue about a band actions or latest album . It was printed in broadsheet printed on normal newspaper paper. However it changed into a more modest, fun magazine due to the break through of magazine like smash hits, so NME changed it’s appearance from a broadsheet newspaper to a tabloid glossy paper magazine and with a much more modest and fun loving approach.

Smash hits Smash hits is the mainstream music magazine started in 1978 and ended in 2006 and continued to release one-offs for tributes e.g. Michael Jackson. It was aimed at teenage girls of the age 11-16. It influenced many other music magazine as it took up the lighter side of the music industry by not taking itself to seriously. This was done through give some serious but also some silly questions in their interviews. However smash hits diverted to becoming a T.V channel , internet website and radio services instead.

Sniffin GlueSniffin glue was a puck rock magazine which can with the same attitude as punk rock, a DIY ethic. It was aimed at 14- 30 year olds on the underground scene. It was actually a fanzine made by the punk rockers for the punk rockers . It was made most by photocopies a handwritten magazine. However fearing absorption by mainstream music the publication seized production. However it became one of the most influential fanzines due to the punk rock ethic of the magazine a accredited by NME as "the nastiest, healthiest and funniest piece of press in the history of rock'n'roll habits“.