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Billboard – 1894 to Present
Many people know Billboard magazine is the Bible of the Music Industry, the place to go for such essential “charts” as the Hot 100 Singles, the Billboard 200 Album Chart, and the Power Playlist from more than 30 top radio stations. But few consumers are probably aware that Billboard is more than 100 years old. This is the place to go if you want to know what the movers and shakers, the people behind the sounds, are up to, and what they’re planning. -
music magazine
Melody Maker began in 1926 and covered allaspects of the jazz scene. By the 50’s it hadcompetition from New Musical Express whichwas appealing to more of a younger generationas it had coverage on the up-and-coming rock nroll scene. They both offered weekly informationon upcoming record releases. The magazineshad newspaper formats but ‘music inkies’provided detailed coverage of independent labelartists not mainstream chart music. A glossymagazine format for Melody Maker wasintroduced in 1999 and -
16 Magazine – 1958 to Present
The late George Winters created this beauty, which for more than 35 years has been the pinnacle of teeny bopper print. Many imitators have popped up over the years, forcing 16 Magazine to withstand some pretty stiff competition. However, =16= Magazine has remained true to its beginnings. If you are looking for real serious interviews and top-notch writing, keep going. If you want to know what the Monkees’ Davy Jones’ favorite food is, or Gene Simmons’ shoe size, or Debbie Gibson or Alyssa Milano -
Music magazine
- The music fanzine is said to have emerged inthe 60s from sci-fi and comic related amateurpublications. Crawdaddy and Bomp areexamples in rock folklore today. The arrival ofamateur publications highlights therelationship between music, fan-basedcreativity and the want to manuscript a‘scene’.
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Flip – 1960 to 1970s
Started to compete with the other teen-pop-fan magazines of its era (16, Tiger Beat,Teen, etc.), Flip filled the pages between its covers with facts, photos, pin-ups, and every detail you might or might not want to know about your teen favorites. Most interesting, any given issue of Flip could cover 20 different artists without achieving much depth on any of them. -
Circus Magazine (Originally Hullabaloo) –1966 to Present
cus is a classic pop magazine which has gone through numerous changes in focus over the past four decades. It got its start at the height of the British Invasion, in 1966, as Hullabaloo magazine. Founded by Gerald Rothberg, who remains the publisher/editor-in-chief more than 30 years later, Hullabaloo became Circus in March of 1969. -
Music magazine
. In 1967 Rolling Stone magazine was createdand documented music as an important partin the culture of youth with reflective articlesabout music and social change, and thepolitical concerns about music. Rolling Stonewas less about factual information and moreabout the culture of music. -
Musician – 1976 to Present
lished by Billboard Publications, Musician leans toward well-written and intelligent features, and fascinating, in-depth interviews with such elusive stars as Bruce Springsteen, Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Steely Dan, and John Fogerty. In its early years, the magazine tended to cover the world of jazz and included interviews with Herbie Hancock and George Benson. However, it quickly embraced other forms, such as pop, rock, reggae, soul, and rap. -
music magazine
The glossy fortnightly magazine Smash Hits wascreated in 1978 and was aimed at teens. Thismagazine is important to the development ofmusic because it covered music in a differentway as it was designed as a genre-specificmagazine (pop). Kerrang! was introduced in 1981and compared to Smash Hits, it is more of amusic orientated magazine. Kerrang!’s monthlycompetitor is Metal Hammer. In the 90s genrespecific magazines were produced, like Mixmag(dance/clubbing music coverage), The Source andHip-Hop ( -
Music magazine
. In 1980 a monthly magazine called RecordCollector became available which was filledfull of adverts and contained sources ofbuying and selling music. It started out as aglossy A5 publication but in 2003 itrelaunched in full-colour in an A4 magazineformat. -
Music magazine
- The Face was launched in 1980 by Nick Logan(ex-editor for Kerrang! And Smash Hits). The Facewas a monthly magazine that offered thecolourful layout of Smash Hits but aimed at aslightly older audience, embracing music andalso fashion and lifestyle. The layout consisted oflots of images and detailed articles, pages full ofcelebrities, musicians, fashion shoots andadvertising. This magazine stopped beingpublished in 2004 however it influenced othermagazines such as Q magazine, Mojo and Uncut.
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Spin – 1985 to Present
This color feature and review magazine is, of course, published out of New York by Bob Guccione Jr. (son of Bob Guccione, founder and publisher of Penthouse, Omni,and Longevity). Spin seeks to cover the cutting-edge and alternative music scene. It has an impressive writing staff; just a few of the contributing editors have included (late novelist-screenwriter) Terry Southern, (beat novelist cult figure) William S. Burroughs, Jim Fouratt, Jim Bessman, and Lisa Robinson. -
Music magazine
Since then, magazines have become lesspopular as nowadays ways to get newinformation about the music scene is veryeasy to do. Most people use the internet andmagazine’s websites to find everything out.The internet has all the information you needfrom CD releases to new artists. You can nowalso use the internet to buy magazines.People can also download music online whicheffects CD sales and record shops. -
Music magazine
- When did it all start? The first issue of Billboard magazine was printed in 1894 but it was in 1936 that it became well known. This gradually evolved into radio airplay and record sales charts (The Billboard charts). TBC provided different music genres and was the foundation for slots on the radio for programmes like ‘American Top 40’. The magazine is aimed at music professionals however, it is available to the general public.
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Rolling Stone Magazine – 1967 to Present
Rolling stones is a rock magazine which shows the latest rock/ indie muscians in each weeks feature and also shows the inside and outs of the popular rock music genre