My Proposal

After doing my research I have decided to create a Pop magazine. I have deconstructed several magazines current and past and found the main conventions of the majority of the magazine. 


Who you are aiming your magazine at specifically? Your specific target audience:

Girls aged between 11-15

What will your magazine be about?

A teenage girl, pop music magazine; with subsidary topics such as fashion, celebrities and gossip.

What are your ideas for coverlines?

• Music Matters
• Fizzy Pop
• Hits
• POP!

What title have I decided on?

After doing a questionnaire on my target audience to see what their favorite name was I have decided to use 'POP!' as my magazine name. I will design the label at a later date.

What fonts do you want to use?

Simple, readable fonts such as

What are your ideas for taglines?


For my tagline I am thinking of doing something short and snappy, and quite cheesy. 
These are my ideas for taglines: 


For all things that POP! 

When in the year will it be published? How frequently?

My magazine will be published either Monthly or Bi-weekly. I was thinking of publishing weekly when the Top40 music charts are changed however i thought this would be too frequent.

What kind of image to you expect to put on the front cover and how will you go about getting this image?

A female or male model, that looks like an artist. Slim, young, dressed up. Taking images of my friends in different settings and styles until I get the right one.

What are the dimensions of the cover?


I think I am going to make a pocket sized magazine (A5) 210 x 148mm/ 8.3 x 5.8 inches. This makes it a compact smaller magazine - making it different to the rest of the magazines also easier to take places. 


What images/colour would you use on the contents page?

Bright, girly colours such as pink, orange, yellow and purple. Images of other 'artists' to link with articles.

Initial Ideas

We Love Pop magazine

An equivalent of TOTPs to current time is the TV show X Factor.

X Factor first aired on September 2004 as a talent TV show which offered singers of ages 16 and above the chance to win a record contract. It is known to start pop careers for artists such as Leona Lewis, One Direction and Cher Lloyd, all well known artists in the pop music industry. They also brought out a magazaine called 'X Factor'. Pop music is one of the most successful music genres in the 90's and 00's therefore all media companies are trying to keep readers reading their magazines by bringing out new magazines which are relatable to the target audience.

We Love Pop magazine-

We Love Pop magazine is a recently formed magazine, similar to Top of the Pops genre and target audience it contains everything you need to know about the Popular music genre.

We Love Pop magazine was founded in July 2011. It is so current that some information has been hard to find.

The editior of We Love Pop Malcolm McKenzie said

"The magazine will target a core audience of 13-15 year olds with in-depth interviews with pop stars, behind-the-scenes exclusives, photos and a "high-end cover gift" designed to appeal to a savvy teen audience."

"With pop domination of the charts, and a host of TV shows like Glee and X Factor feeding the buzz, we believe the time is right to bring the pop world to life for a new generation of teens."  

This shows that We Love Pop's target audience is 13-15 year old girls, who love pop bands, artists and television shows. We Love Pop usually has topics about boy bands, gossip and celebrities which attracts their audience. As it is so current nothing has really changed since the first edition of the magazine. The magazine is release monthly by © Egmont UK a company in which is known for publishing childrens magazines and books.

This is their current website.

They use a symbol to represent 'Love' to keep to the current, up to date feel as this is very much a recent thing. Shortening words or phrases down to symbols and ............


They talk about recent topics to do with Pop music artists and current events who's dating who, who's bringing out a new album, their thoughts on a celebrity couple to to keep with the genre. A hybrid of music and magazine celebrity chat/gossip.


The informal language used and literally catching phrases such as 'Cute Couple', 'Er', 'Nuthin'' and 'awwwwww' also keeps with the magazines genre and target audience as they are aiming at young teenage girls, they are relating to the audience.


The use of Facebook and Twitter which most music loving teenage girls will be on, once again links to the target audience and is a recently formed aspect. Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites are some of the most convinent ways to discover information.

                                                                           July 2011

September 2011:

                                                                      October 2011:

November 2011: Multiple editions

                           December 2011

Here are the first edition and other editions of the magazine. As the magazine is new it hasn't changed in anyway what so ever. The november issue feature a limited edition cover model, with each band member of One Direction covering the magazine, therefore the readers could chose which edition they wanted depending on their favourite band member.  

Music Magazine - Research

Music magazine research and comparison-


Rolling Stone - 


Rolling Stone was founded on November 9th 1967 by the American publishing company Wenner Media LLC. The company is based in New York City US, and is published bi-weekly. The magazine is mainly targeted at older male music lovers who listen to rock/alternative music it is also described to follow with the 1960s/70s 'hippie counterculture' . However in recent years the company have given the magazine a more current feel to appeal to younger target audiences - mass more frequent magazine readers. The magazine was known for its controversial editor with strong political coverage however it has developed becoming a music magazine with some political features. 


Rolling Stone is an American magazine however is sold in many other countries, it features many well known artists which appeal to the target audience but also well known as British or American music icons; readers don't need to be apart of British or American culture to know who is on the cover. Previous magazine cover artists include (in order over the years) John Lennon(1967, reoccurring), Tina Turner(1967, Reoccurring), The Beatles (1967, reoccurring), Jim Morrison,Janet Jackson(1983),Spice Girls (1997), Jay-Z (2007), Lady Gaga (2009), Glee cast (musical comedy TV show)(2010), Adele (2011).

This shows how the magazine has developed over the years to appeal to the mass audience. With a variety of music genres and artists it shows how Rolling Stone began as a specific rock based, political infused music magazine appealing to niche however is now a popular music based magazine appealing to the mass. Also photo quality and editing is a lot better as technologies have developed and are now a lot more advanced. In the early years of the magazine the layout was very similar of that from a newspaper with similar dimensions - a more square rather than a rectangular shape, however it has slowly adjusted and developed into your 'typical' magazine layout. 


Rolling Stone magazine is also sold internationally in a wide variety of countries, this broadens their audience. Countries include:

• Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey.

Rolling Stone magazine is very successful; selling an average of 228,500 copies per month internationally (around 1.4 million in 2010 copies were sold) 


Around 56% of the buyers are men and 44% are women and 56% of the magazine buyers are in their 20’s.


Their USP is their variety of artists used as the cover model, and the 'exclusive' interviews with them talking about their personal life. 


Top Of The Pops-
Top of the Pops magazine was founded in February 1995, it is published and owned by BBC Magazines. The company is based in London and is published monthy. The magazine is aimed at young teenage girls and when it began was described as 'the missing link between NME and Smash Hits'. It was published as a supplementary to the TV Show Top of the Pops (1964-2006). It began as a music based magazine however has slowly developed into a teenage girls magazine that claims to contain 'Every issue is packed with amazing star gossip, plus hot fashion and beauty advice, sexy lads, and side-splitting cringes. Take a personality quiz to find out more about yourself, check your horoscope, sing along to our songwords, or simply pop an exclusive poster on your bedroom wall.' this shows how the magazine is infused with music however is now a teenage celebrity and gossip  magazine. 

The magazine is only distributed and sold nationally in the UK, and features mainly British teenage TV show celebrities, presenters and artists/bands. Previous cover models include:
Spice Girls (reoccurring), S Club 7 (reoccurring), All Saints (1997), Boyzone (1999) Hear'Say (2002) Liberty X (2002, 2003), Westlife (2004), McFly(2004), Girls Aloud (reoccurring) Leona Lewis (2008), The Wanted (2010) , One Direction (2011) 

This shows how the magazine hasn't changed significantly from the first edition. The logo and writing has developed, also the quality of the image. This shows how technology has progressed since 1995.


Top if the Pops magazine sales figures have significantly decreased from the peak of its popularity in the late 90s.  TOTPs circulation figures today are around 98,000 sales per month in comparison to the 90s when the magazine was at the peak of music magazine sales, selling more copies per month than any other British music magazine. This could have been because in the 90s BBC were at the top of almost every aspect of the British media industry. Since then new technologies and channels have been invented which appeal to more teenage audiences. Meaning the popularity of the magazine has decreased.