2. Research

Music magazines are magazines that are dedicated to artists, bands and different types of music culture. They mainly include music news, interviews, photo shoots, radio reviews, new releases, celebrity gossip, concerts and some include a free album of music or free music downloads. Music magazines are very popular in the United Kingdom, with the first published magazine in 1926 called Melody Maker who then became rivals with the NME magazine which was first issued in 1952 and is still very famous today. NME is the worlds greatest and influential weekly music magazine which is known for creating the first singles chart, bringing punk into the wider world and being funny, critical and truth telling about music journalism. Several other British magazines such as Select and Sounds also folded between 1990 and 2000 and some current UK music magazines include Q, Kerrang! and Mojo. Some magazines in the industry have done so well that a TV show has been made based on the magazine, these are mainly pop music and are aimed at a younger market such as Top Of The Pops and Smash Hits which is now a music channel and radio station.

Publishing

Bauer Media Group is a multinational media company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Worldwide circulation of Bauer Media Group's magazine titles amounts to 38 million magazines a week. The Bauer Publishing Group has grown into a worldwide publishing and media company and comprises 282 magazines worldwide in 15 countries, as well as TV and radio stations. It is popular for publishing Q magazine in 1986 and Mojo magazine.

Prometheus Global Media, formerly e5 Global Media, is an American entertainment publishing company based in New York City. The company was formed by the sale of the entertainment and media division of Nielsen Business Media in December 2009 and is most popular for publishing Billboard magazine.


Time Inc. is a subsidiary of the media conglomerate Time Warner, the company formed by the 1990 merger of the original Time Inc. and Warner Communications and it publishes 130 magazines. It also owns the UK magazine house IPC Media, whose major titles include What's On TV, NME, Country Life, Marie Claire and Nuts.

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences. The company was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but is now owned by Apax and Guardian Media Group. "EMAP" is an acronym, standing for East Midland Allied Press. It is famous for publishing the music magazine Smash Hits.

BBC Magazines is the magazine publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. They published the magazine Top Of The Pops.