Jade Carter

A unsuccessfulmusic

Magazine cover analysis

NME is called NME as it is an abbreviation of new musical express.The significant words in the title is "new" as that’s what people want in a music magazine new news about music and singers/bands.

NME magazine costs £2.20 per issue and it is published every week in the UKThe sale of NME magazine fell by 14.3 percent, in the first half of 2011 the sale of magazines were 29,020 in the UK

NME magazine is targeted at the younger generation (17 25 years) who are interested in indie music and new bands as this is what this magazine focuses on.You can tell what the target audience is by the front cover, on this addition there is a free Indie CD which suggests what type of music listeners it is aiming at, although because this magazine cover is not very good it is harder to tell the age of the target audience.

The reader interacts with the magazine as it asks a lot of rhetorical questions throughout to get the reader to interact and they give away CDs to get the readers to interact. Also this magazine offers a website which allows readers to look up gigs and write comments on issues.

The cover of this particular issue is not very good as there isn’t a specific image that they want the reader to focus on so it doesn’t draw people in with spectacular images, the text is very clear with its font although the cover is very packed which could put some readers of.

The text about the free CD is feature to aware people what is inside to try and persuade people to buy the magazine, and the centre writing is there to make people aware of what is included in this magazine again to make people buy the magazine.

The yellow writing is used to make the writing stand out from the other magazine when it is in a shop but on this magazine this is not very affective as this is the only really noticeable feature on the front cover.

The front cover doesn’t really have a set layout as it is very cluttered which this magazine cover normally isn’t, although the main focus on this addition is written in the middle which is very large.

Although the colours on the front cover are unisex I think there are limited representations towards women and I feel the magazine is masculine and focussed towards men.