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History of music magazines

  • Billboard magazine's

    Billboard magazine's
    Billboard music magazine's first advertising campaign got under way, they are the oldest publishing company in their particular field of work. They still publish weekly with a circulation around 16,000 copies. Founded in Cincinnati by William H donaldson.
  • Billboard Magazine's

    Billboard Magazine's
    Starts coverage of motion pictures
  • Melody Maker

    Melody Maker
    Melody Maker came into publishing as they concentrated on the jazz aspect of music.
  • Billboard Magazine's

    Billboard Magazine's
    The company only really started to get recognised due to the publicity artists and song writers were getting from the radio.
  • NME

    NME
    NME first launched
  • Billboard

    Billboard
    Billboard rebranded themselves as Billboard music week and they are now nearly completely dedicated to music
  • Crawdaddy

    Crawdaddy
    Came into publishing as the first american Rock and Roll magazine, founded by Paul williams
  • Rolling stone launched

    Rolling stone launched
    As part of the band the rolling stones, this magazine was published every two weeks on their behalf.
  • NME

    NME
    Become the best selling British music magazine
  • First glossy music magazine

    Designed to be genre specific this technique is being used today in magazines to be more appealing and interesting
  • Kerrang!

    First issue of kerrang was published, it is known for being music orientated although it has been linked to "smash hits"
  • Total guitar launched

    Total guitar is devoted to rock music, guitars and drums. They are one of the most succesful magazines in Europe
  • Top of the pops

    First launched, famous for giving the "spice girls" their nicknames.
  • Q

    One of the biggest brands in the industry launch their website. Perhaps a mistake as most of the readers now browse the site instead of purchasing the magazine itself.
  • Melody Maker

    Melody Maker
    Last issue which brings and end to a seventy four era
  • Q

    After a couple years of being a much smaller radio station Q was launched as a much larger full radio station