British music magazines

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Kerrang is published by Bauer Media Group, it primarily focuses on rock music but does cover some other genres. Kerrang has 29 years of heritage and is the biggest music weekly in the world, with a readership of 21,000. It also has an ABC1 profile of 52% and the median age of it’s readers is 22. It’s readers are the heaviest music consumers purchasing over 6 albums per month on average, as well as over 85% of their readers purchasing every issue.

Rock sound pride themselves on providing ‘immediate and meaningful access to the best new bands on the scence’. They are a 14 year old magazine, published by Freeway Press Inc, who have a readership of 48,914 and an ABC circulation of 13,220.Their audience spends around £546 million per year on music, £611 million per year on fashion and over 50% of their readers are musicians. Rock Sound’s audience spans over different media platforms with 358,000 Facebook likes, 214,000 Twitter followers and 78,000 YouTube subscribers

Q Magazine was published by Bauer Media Group in 1986. It covers a wide range of music, it currently has a circulation of 52,781, an ABC profile of 71.8% and a median reader age of 34.Q also produces a digital edition every month that ‘brings music alive’, it combines interactive galleries, videos and music links so you can listen while you read. Once a year Q also host an awards ceremony, which is supported by their associate partners.

Bauer Media Group is Europe’s largest privately owned publishing group, it publishes over 300 magazines in 15 countries. Bauer Media is a sister company of H Bauer Publishing, publisher of the UK's biggest TV listings, Take a Break and Bella. Some of the magazines published are..

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