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.
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
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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.
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