Music Magazine Publishing Research

Music magazines have long been seen as a way create a relationship between bands and fans, and often contain information that may be of a large interest to these fans, increasing demand for these magazines. Therefore, publication of magazines can produce a large amount of profit and the marketing of the magazines is very important.

The NME magazine is usually priced at around £2.10 per issue and is published by IPC MEDIA, the UK's largest magazine publisher-publishing 80 different magazines each month, of varying types (Music Magazines, Women's Fashion, Men's Magazines, Gardening Magazines, Sports, Television Magazines, Boating Magazines and Celebrity Magazines).

Similarly, another rock music magazine, Kerrang, is priced at £2.20 per issue. This magazine however is published by Bauer Media Group, and is based in Germany. The Bauer Media group also publishes around 200 other magazines, sometimes worldwide, including another famous music magazine, Q, which is priced cheaper, at £1.60.

The community that these magazines create is very important for the music industry, where many awards have been set up in the name of these music magazines, such as the NME awards. These magazines also include a certain amount of advertising, sometimes in the form of covert advertising, so that new bands can become better known, increasing sales of music, and allowing the music industry to expand.