Billboard music magazine

I decided to do research into Billboard magazine as I felt the magazine covers would provide influences into my own work.

The music genre included is  mainly chart (pop) music and follows most of the typical codes and conventions. 

In the first magazine cover of Lady Gaga, i like the incorporation of the colours on the magazine cover with her vibrant hair colour. I also like the idea of the main cover star being central to the cover, as it focus' attention on them. 

In the Coldplay cover, the use of the graffiti wall suggests the new path their music may be trying to take as they have often been seen as a rock band but this suggest the more alternative element of their music taking the forefront.

All of the covers are a modern style, which is what i intend to do in my own magazine, to portray the intentions of the artist as well as relate to the target audience. 

I would say the target audience of billboard magazine is from teenagers around the age of 16 up to adults around 25 years old. This is because the layout is mature and not sprawled with teen artists. Also, it doesn't advertise gossip on the lives of the stars, but rather an insight into their style and an update of the chart music.

Not being genre specific, the magazine focus' on the news for each genre, particularly the charts.

This can help me as I can see the ways magazines meet the needs of their target audiences.