LAURYN DAINTON

Music Magazine QuestionnaireAnalysis

WHAT IS YOUR GENDER?

Male

50%

Female

50%

Gender

Male

Female

I handed out my music

magazine questionnaire

evenly, I gave it to 50%

males and 50% females.

This makes my results a

lot more reliable and not

very bias.

WHAT IS YOUR PREFERRED MUSIC GENRE?

Classical

0%Rap

10%

Pop

70%

Indie

10%

Rock

10%

Preferred Music Genre

Classical

Rap

Pop

Indie

Rock

From my collected data, I can see that pop

music is the most popular music choice in the

selection of people that filled out my

questionnaire. There was an equal amount of

preference for Indie music, Rock music and Rap

music whereas Classical music had no interest

from any of my respondents.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING MUSIC MAGAZINES WOULD YOU

READ?

NME

20%

Q

50%

UNCUT

10%

KERRANG!

20%

MOJO

0%

Preferred Music Magazine

NME

Q

UNCUT

KERRANG!

MOJO

The collected data reveals that ‘Q’ magazine

was the most popular magazine to read within

the respondents to my questionnaire.

‘KERRANG!’ and ‘NME’ were equally favoured by

the respondents, ‘UNCUT’ was only favoured by

10% of my respondents, whereas the least

favourite magazine to read, with 0% interest

was ‘MOJO’.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING MASTHEADS DO YOU PREFER?

30%

30%0%

40%

0%

Preferred Masthead

Hits

Tune

UBFM (Up Beat

Future Music)

Pulse

Lyric

For the music magazine I have to create, I asked

my respondents which of the 5 mastheads they

prefer the most, and would catch their eye and

intrigue them to read my magazine, I found the

most preferred masthead is ‘PULSE’, but ‘TUNE’

and ‘HITS’ also received an interest from my

respondents. The mastheads ‘LYRIC’ and ‘UBFM’

received no interest from any respondents.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SLOGANS DO YOU PREFER?

Preferred Slogans Bringing music to

life

Face the music

Let the music speak

When words fail,

music speaks

Hear the music, See

the music, Live the

musicHits and the juicy

bits

20%

20%

10%

10%

10%

30%

For this question I asked my respondents to

select a slogan to be featured on the front cover

of my magazine, the most preferred slogan was

‘Hits and the juicy bits’, I personally also like this

slogan and it could possibly match the masthead

‘HITS’, it’s also very catchy. All of the remaining

slogans also received interest from my

respondents.

WOULD YOU ACCESS WEBSITES OR OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS ASSOCIATED

WITH A MUSIC MAGAZINE?

Yes

90%

No

10%

Media Platforms

Yes

No

The majority of my respondents

said that they would access

websites or other media

platforms associated with a

music magazine, only 10% of

them said they wouldn’t.

HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY FOR A MUSIC MAGAZINE?

£1.50 -

£2.50

60%

£2.60 -

£3.50

40%

£3.60 - £4

0%

Pay

£1.50 - £2.50

£2.60 - £3.50

£3.60 - £4

The collected data shows that 60% of my

respondents would pay anything from

£1.50 to £2.50 for a music magazine, this

could be because they are young and

maybe couldn’t afford to pay huge

amounts. The other 40% would pay

between £2.60 and £3.50 for a music

magazine, no interest was shown in the

higher prices.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING MAIN IMAGES ON THE COVER WOULD ENCOURAGE

YOU TO BUY A MUSIC MAGAZINE?

25%

25%17%

8%

25%

Preferred Main Image

Male Artist

Female Artist

Male Group

Female Group

Mixed Group

After reviewing my results I can see that

some of my respondents would prefer to

see either a ‘MALE ARTIST’ a ‘FEMALE

ARTIST’ or a ‘MIXED GROUP’ as the main

image, whereas a ‘MALE GROUP’ was a little

less popular and a ‘FEMALE GROUP’ had the

least amount of interest from my

respondents.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BANDS / ARTISTS WOULD YOU WANT TO READ

ABOUT IN A MUSIC MAGAZINE?

27%

13%

7%13%

0%

7%

33%

Bands / Artists

Justin Bieber

Imagine Dragon

Ariana Grande

Drake

Nicki Minaj

The 1975

Other

By looking at the data I collected, the most

popular artists were ones not listed, which

come under the ‘OTHER’ category, the

artist that was listed and seemed the most

popular was ‘JUSTIN BIEBER’. All other

artist had interest from the responders

except for ‘NICKI MINAJ’ who had no

interest from any responders.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS FROM A CONTENTS PAGE WOULD

ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ A MUSIC MAGAZINE?

5%

44%

11%

11%

6%

6%

11%6%

0%

Contents PageEditor's letter

Interviews with artists

Reviews of

albums/downloadsLive Gigs/Festivals

Regulars

Features on current bands

Downloads

Film/TV/Video Game

ReviewsOther

My collected data shows that my

respondents would rather read an

‘Interview With Artists’ than anything

else. Some respondents chose more than

one section that would encourage them,

there was interest from each responder

for an option listed, nobody such ‘Other’.

This gives me an idea of what would get

peoples attention more and what would

interest the readers when I create my

own music magazine.

WHAT TYPE OF ARTICLE DO YOU ENJOY READING IN A MUSIC

MAGAZINE?

64%18%

9%9%

0%

Preferred Article

1st Person Interview with

bands/artists - question/answer

3rd Person Interview with

bands/artists

Information about the

history/background of bands/artists

Reviews of CDs/gigs/tours

Other

Looking at my data, I can see that the

most popular article that my

responders like to read in a magazine is

the ‘1st Person Interview’ along with

‘3rd Person Interviews’. No responders

suggested any other articles and

showed interested in most that were

listed, this gives me a slight idea on

what to include in my music magazine to

keep people interested.