History of Music Magazines/Press

Timeline

This is a summary of my secondary research which I found in a book called Music Press for teachers by Cath Davies.

1894: first magazine printed by IPC- The Melody Maker

1926: Melody maker and the rise of the inkies - had information on all upcoming record release and articles on artists and their music. - magazines were more like newspapers accounting on facts and events. This is why they were called inkies as they did not have glossey colourful photos like magazines today.

1936: Billboard magazine and the arrival of charts - American top 40 on the radio stations that was called the music hit parade Billboard charts - diagonal expansion. The Melody maker was finally published.

1966: the rock fanzine paving the way for fan-based independent publications franzies are the first validation of  music sub genre - valuable accounts on the history of music. thus are alive on the internet which is easily accessed digital publication.

1967:Rolling Stones - magazine published first in san francisco famous journalists and photographers made there name though this product - Music as culturally significant - depending on your culture and experiences depends what genre you prefere

1976: mark perry first published the punk franzine sniffin' glue.

1978: smash hits genre-specific music magazine - with Americans introducing hip-hop (The Source) and for older publics was catered for (Classic Rock)

1980: "The Face" and the glossy lifestyle magazine - opposed inkies such as NME. including other details like fashion and advertising - style was starting be better than content.

The record collector catering to the music enthusiasts - other lifestyle  magazines included facts about music trying to broaden their audiences. However, CDs were invented and persuaded people to buy magazines more thanks to synergy.

1981: Kerang! first published by Bauer targeted to teens with celebrity obsessions by profiling music artists.

1994: First edition of Total Guitarist published by future

2000: NME arrival also produced by IPC

2003: full colour and A4 magazines commonly produced

Now, social network sites enable exchange and interaction between the customers and producers. Some customers are creating content by sending letters to producers. In addition some advertise the magazine on these sites enabling people to comment on and like them. when someone does these forms of engaging it is automatically posted on peoples personal settings which are displayed later on their friends adverts saying this many of your friends like metal hammer for instance. Lastly, more magazines are available only digitally like monkey magazine or The Word which has completely closed all together. The fact that new technology is being adapted means that magazines have another kind of competitor other than newspapers like they used to. Therefore, they have to try extra hard to attract audiences with big bold fonts and bright colours and using lots of synergy to expand and develop the magazines company and brand.