Analysis/Conventions of a Music Magazine Front Cover

Music magazines usually consist of one main dominant picture on the front cover of a band or artist. This is so our eye is drawn to it so we look at the magazine and try to recognise the artist/band. Also with music magazines I have noticed that the masthead is spread across the top of the music like a banner on a website.

Another convention of a music magazine is that next to the dominant picture there is the main cover line that is always in bold font relevant to the picture. This is usually the name of the band/artist so people who don’t recognise them know who they are.

 

A convention of the content of this sort of magazine is that there are always posters of bands that are featuring in an article in the magazine to help promote themselves. A lot of the time there are always interviews with band members inside about things like how their tours going or how their new studio album is coming along.

Also inside music magazines will be a chart update and album updates. Obviously these charts will depend on the genre of the music magazine. Like we wouldn’t expect to see One Direction at the top of the Heavy Metal charts.

The layout of music magazines is also quite similar with the masthead across the top, one main picture with main cover line across the low middle of the front cover and then the barcode tucked nicely into the bottom right hand corner.