L.O: To investigate audience, institution and magazine readership.

We love PopAbout Us page:We Love Pop is a monthly mag for pop loving teenagers, or anyone with very good tastes in magazines. We have the best free gifts, the funniest interviews, the coolest fashion, ten gorgeous posters each time, a different celebrity agony aunt every issue and loads more general pop amusingness' that you won’t find anywhere else. You won't want to miss it. So don't?

Available in all good newsagents, supermarkets, WH Smiths, Boots, Superdrug and Eason's in Ireland.

My Opinion:This magazine helps me decide what music magazine genre I want to do, because of how fun and bright the magazine always looks. I like the way the front is packed with things to catch the consumers eyes. Another reason why I want to do my magazine on pop music is because it is also a type of music that I listen to also, so wouldn't be to much of a struggle to relate to the genre.

Only thing that would put me off this genre of music for my magazine is that there are quite a lot of young magazines that cater to this genre also, so its a very competitive field.

This magazine is quite new so there isn't a figure of teens who read and buy this weekly.

I think that I could succeed with making a new pop music magazine, that is different by having more for the readers to do. In a lot of these magazines they just have competitions etc to get there readers involved. But I think they should allow there readers to have a column where they talk about what they like and new music. Making the magazine more for them.

We love PopEgmont UK Ltd, is the UK’s leading children's publisher, for babies through to teens.

We love pop is the only teen magazine that Egmont publish , and was created after the collapse of ‘Smash Hits’ magazine.

From the Key facts in have found out that the magazine is sold monthly, this leaves a gap in the market for my magazine as I could produce more edition and have them out weekly instead.

BillboardFrom Billboard’s About Us Page:Billboard is the world's most influential music media brand reaching key executives and tastemakers in and around the music business through Billboard Magazine. The Billboard brand is built on its exclusive charts and unrivaled reporting on the latest news, issues and trends across all genres of music. Billboard receives hundreds of millions of brand impressions daily through many strategic relationships with major companies across various industries. These relationships leverage Billboard's brand recognition, proprietary chart data and information resources to develop products, live events and print, television, radio, digital and mobile platforms

Billboard magazine carters to more than one music genre. They look at R’n’b, rap and rock music plus many more I'm sure of.

Billboard magazine is produced in the United states by an institution named Prometheus Global Media. The magazine is sold in over a 100 countries and includes around 200 hundred countries charts and new music. The first edition of Billboard was sold September 1894 and shows how successful the magazine has been. The magazine is sold weekly.

Billboard

Smash HitsSmash Hits was a pop music magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP.

It ran from 1978 to 2006 and was issued fortnightly for most of that time. The name survives as a brand for a related spin-off digital television channel, digital radio station, and website which have survived the demise of the printed magazine.

The publication was initially monthly but switched to fortnightly after only four issues, which it remained until its demise. The backbone of the magazine in its early years, and one of its major early selling points, was the publication of Top 20 song lyrics.

In February 2006, it was announced that the magazine would cease publication after the 13 February edition due to declining sales. The digital television, digital radio, and website services will continue.

In July 2009 a one-off commemorative issue of the magazine was published as a tribute to singer Michael Jackson. Further one-off specials were released in November 2009 (Take That) and December 2010 (Lady Gaga).

Smash hits have left a gap in the market for another pop magazine that my magazine could fill. I like there initially selling point of having top 20 song lyrics, and feel that I could bring it back in a more modern way.

Top of the PopsBased on the longest running BBC television show of it's kind, Top of the Pops magazine provides the music chart gossip as you would expect.

Aimed at younger teenage girls, there is also Fashion, boys and beauty advice all included. When you buy a copy of Top of the Pops magazine, you can also expect a free gift, poster or sticker set.

Top of the Pops magazine is a monthly publication published by BBC Magazines. It features chart information, star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters. It is a supplementary magazine for the TV show Top of the Pops.

The magazine was launched in February 1995.

It was originally marketed as the missing link between Smash Hits and NME, but its format was gradually changed, with less music content and a demographic shift to young girls.

From my research I have found out that the top of the pops magazine still continues to be produced. I was surprised at this, due to not seeing them in the shops myself.

BlissBliss is a monthly British magazine aimed at teenage girls, retailing at £2.75 and often comes with a gift such as make-up or a bag. The content covers candid celebrity gossip, latest fashions, hair and make-up looks, a problem page on puberty, boyfriends, friends and sex, interview with the female celebrity cover girl, entertainment reviews, romance advice, psychology for friendships and real-life stories.

I like this magazine a lot because it is bright and colourful and represents the target audience really well.

Having studied this magazine i would like to use this magazine as a template for my magazine production, as it is girly and bright.

This magazine is the sort of layout that i want to achieve for my magazine, as I prefer it over the other magazines and its not stereotypically cheesy, it has maturity to the magazine which will attract readers of 16 and maybe slightly older.

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