Billboard Research - Preparing For The Main Task

For my first task I have been asked to research a music magazine and to find out the target audience is for this magazine, the genre, type of bands that would be in this magazine etc. I have chosen Billboard magazine for this task.

The age target audience for this magazine are people from the age of 16 and above as it is for people who are really into their music. The magazine gives away that it is aimed for the age group 16+ as the text on the front cover is formal and fancy thus people aged under 10 wouldn't really appeal towards this magazine.

The gender for this magazine is for anybody who is interested in their music, as this magazine is for all types of music and different music artist so it can please anybody.

The music genre Bilboard have chosen different types of music genres, such as; Pop, R&B, rap, dance, hip-hop etc. 

Billboad represents a social group that's out going, loves to be around people the love to 'chill' or just 'hang' around with their mates, also for people who love to dance. The text also informs us of what social group this magazine represents, the text is plain and clear easy to read and also formal by this you can tell that they are aiming for people who are simple.

Billboard magazine has a wide distribution. Everywhere there are people talking about this magazine as it holds new songs, gossip about pop stars, inside stories about the pop stars etc.

The types of artist and bands you will see or find in this magazine will most likely be R&B, pop, rap. Eminem, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, T.I etc. would be found or seen in this magazine as they are related to the music genre that this magazine has chosen.