I asked the question ‘What is your favourite type of music?’ This graphs shows that 4 people (57.14%) said ‘Pop’ and 3 (42.86%) said ‘Rock’. As no one said ‘puck’, ‘alternative’, ‘country’ or ‘R&B’ I ruled these options out straight away, as they obviously didn’t appeal to my target audience. I was then left with two options and they got nearly equal amounts of votes on the survey. I researched both of these genres and decided to go with ‘pop’ because it is a quite wide genre and I knew more about it than I did about ‘rock’.

I asked the question ‘What music magazine would you be most likely to buy?’ This graph shows that 3 (42.86%) said ‘Billboard’, 1 (14.29%) said ‘Kerrang’, 2 (28.57%) said ‘Q’ and 1 (14.29%) said ‘Classic FM’. No one that took my survey (my target audience age-wise) said they would buy NME magazine, so I ignored it and looked more at Q and Billboard as they were the most popular answers. I looked into and researched both magazines and decided that I liked the look of Billboard more and that I would base my own magazine on that rather than any of the others.

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How often to you think a music magazine should come out?

I asked the question ‘How often do you think a music magazine should come out?’ and this pie chart shows the answers everyone gave. I gave four options- daily, weekly, monthly and yearly. No one said daily or yearly, and only 2 (28.57%) people said weekly, meaning 5 (71.43%) said monthly. The results of this question along with extra research made it very obvious to me that music magazines should have monthly issues rather than weekly issues.

How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?

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I asked the question ‘How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?’ and this bar chart shows the answers everyone gave. I gave three options, £1-£2, £2-£3 and £3+. No one said £3+, 2 (28.57%) people said £1-£2 and 5 (71.43%) people said £2-£3. This tells me that when I make my music magazine I should price it somewhere between £2-£3 because this is what most people would be expecting to pay.

What do you think is a good name for a new music magazine?

• For the last question, I asked ‘what do you think is a good name for a new music magazine?’ These are the answers people gave:

• Noise• M• Sound• Bang• Music Weekly

I think that these are all good suggestions, however as my magazine is a teen pop based magazine that is aimed at teenage girls, I don’t think that ‘Bang’ or ‘Noise’ would be appropriate as a title, as they are more associated with different styles of music. I will, however, take the other suggestions (M, Sound and Music Weekly) into consideration when creating my magazine.