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Q MUSIC THE MODERN GUIDE TO MUSIC AND MORE By Amy Kay
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Q MUSICTHE MODERN GUIDE TO MUSIC AND MORE
By Amy Kay
About the magazine…
Q music magazine is a popular music magazine in the United Kingdom. The founders of it are Mark Ellen and David Hepworth. The first copy of the magazine was published in October 1986. It is a monthly magazine and sets itself aside from other music magazines because of this and the high quality photography and printing. The magazine was originally going to be called cue because of the cueing of a record ready to be played however this changed to Q because it could be mistaken for a snooker magazine and the one letter title would be more prominent in the stands in shops.
Who owns Q?
Q music magazine is owned by Bauer Media, which is Europe's largest privately owned publishing company and they offer over 300 magazines. This is a media group which is very popular as they do not only produce many different magazines they also have TV channels and radio stations. Bauer Medias publications include: heat magazine, FHM, Closer and MCN. The radio channels and TV channels that they produce are magic 105.4, kiss 100 and Kerrang and 4Music. Bauer media also own other genre music magazines such as Kerrang!
Bauer Media
Bauer Media are a popular publishing group who are situated in Hamburg in Germany. The company was founded in 1875 and ever since then it has been a privately-owned company and is under the management by the Bauer family. The worldwide circulation of Bauer Medias magazine titles is approximately 38 million magazines a week.
The company…
The company is a well established company and I would say that it was a mainstream company because they produce a number off magazines which are sold in Britain and are very popular. The total circulation of Q magazine is 80,418 which means that the magazine is very popular so it must be mainstream.
British?
I would say that Q magazine is very British because it is only sold in Britain. However the magazine is published in Germany and then sent over to Britain to be sold. The founders of the magazine Mark Ellen and David Hepworth are both British.
Other relevant info…
Q music have an online website which gives information on the top 25 and the top 50 songs, it has a track of the day which is available for download, a gallery and tickets for sale. (http://www.qthemusic.com/)
Q also have a radio station which launched in June 2008. The show presenters include Russell Kane, Eddie Piller and QPM with Samanthi.
Audience…
Q magazine focuses mainly on pop and rock music. The genre that this is mainly aimed at is men, however there are some women readers. Q magazine is not as gender biased as other music magazines such as Kerrang! The magazine is also the magazine is aimed at a younger audience because they focus on newer rock music rather than classical rock music. I would class the age range of the magazine between about 18 and 30 because it is a young person based magazine however older readers may read the magazine. Also the audience for the magazine has got to be music fanatics who like a specific genre.
