Q1) Analysis: The most popular genre of music magazine that people would buy is Rock, closely followed by Alternative and Indie. Interestingly, Alternative and Indie are both branches off of the main genre rock which again backs up how popular rock music is. Most music magazines such as NME, Kerrang and Rock Sound seem to be based around these three genres of music and therefore must obviously attract a larger audience than classical or swing styled music magazines in the age band of 16-18yrs. Other genres such as pop, R&B and Metal all follow with 11 people liking them each. Other genres such as Reggae, Jazz and Country are again not as popular as the before stated genres which shows a popular following for rock music and it’s branches.
Q2) WHICH ARTISTS DO YOU TEND TO LISTEN TO?
Q2 Analysis: The top 5 most popular artists within the age band of 16yrs-18yrs out of 40 people asked to do the questionnaire are Eminem (7 People), Pendulum (6 People), Biffy Clyro (5 People), Paramore (5 People), Mumford and Sons (3 People), Lost Prophets (3 People) and Rhianna (3 People). This shows that Rock is an overall favourite as other genres such as Indie and Alternative are branches from the original genre of rock music. Interestingly people seemed to prefer bands opposed to solo artists as 40 bands were mentioned and only 17 solo artists were picked as favourites.
Q3) IF YOU BUY MUSIC MAGAZINES WHICH ONES DO YOU TEND TO BUY AND WHY?
Q3) Analysis: The most popular music magazine that people buy is Kerrang magazine, which is again based around rock/metal music and features artists such as Paramore, Biffy Clyro and Avenge Sevenfold. The next most popular music magazine is NME magazine which tends to focus more on Indie/Alternative artists such as Florence and the Machine, Oasis and Mumford and Sons. Not many people seemed to buy music magazines and the only other mentioned magazine that someone bought was Rock Sound which focuses on artists such as 30 Seconds to Mars, Greenday and Bullet for my Valentine e.t.c
Q4) IF YOU DON'T TEND TO BUY MUSIC MAGAZINES, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY?
(RESULTS):
‘Prefer gossip mags’
‘Prefer Ok, Hello and Vogue’
‘Don’t feel the need to’
‘Don’t have the time or money’
‘Opportunity cost is the next frequent alternative to a choice’
‘I don’t like them’
‘Don’t enjoy them / expensive’
‘Rather listen to the music then read about it’
‘I don’t really read a lot of magazines and if I did they’d probably be trashy rubbish with true life stories and pictures of celebs’
‘Normally I have no money’
‘Because I forget to read them’
‘I have better things to do with my time’
‘They are online, usually too mainstream’
‘They are vain and annoy me/make me angry’
‘I’m not interested by music band information’
‘Because I don’t listen to music enough to make it worth it’
Q4 Analysis: The general reason for not buying a music magazine is the fact that either they generally don’t interest people as they don’t care about reading about bands and general information on music. People asked also said that they didn’t have enough money to frequently buy music magazines and then would forget to read them or didn’t think they were worth it. Most people also don’t seem to read magazines anyway and therefore if they did then they would prefer to spend their money on magazines such as ‘ok’, ‘Hello’ and ‘Vogue’ which are more centred around gossip and celebrities rather than bands and artists.
Q5) WHAT ATTRACTS YOU TO CERTAIN MUSIC MAGAINZES?
Q5) WHAT ATTRACTS YOU TO CERTAIN MUSIC MAGAZINES? (WRITTEN ANSWERS RESULTS) :
‘The pretty men on the front cover’
‘The bands on the front covers’
‘Artists on the cover’
‘Loud exciting front covers’
‘Hot Girls on the cover’
‘Posters of fit women and Justin Bieber’
Q5) Analysis: Most people are attracted to the front cover and, more specifically, the pictures of the artists being featured in that edition. The written reasons why are that they like the pictures on the front cover, a range of men liked to see attractive women on the cover and girls liked to see ‘pretty men’. Other qualities that attract people to magazines are the posters inside the magazine.
Q6) HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY FOR A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
Q6) HOW MUCH WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO PAY FOR A MUSIC MAGAZINE?
Q6) Analysis: When asked, most people who took the questionnaire said that they woudl prefer to pay somewhere between £2.00 - £3.50 for a music magazine. This shows that people wouldn't mind paying a little bit extra for their music magazines however they wouldn't bother if the magazine was over £3.50. This shows that music magazines are desirable, however people in the age group 16 - 18yrs think it's not worth it if their expensive.
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