Identify and explain the choice of music genre

For my music magazine I will produce an alternative music based magazine. This is because within the magazine industry, alternative music magazines are very prominent. Also alternative music magazines such as, Q and NME have large circulation numbers. Q magazine has a circulation of 130,179 as of June 2007. NME magazine has a circulation of 38,486 as of December 2009. Both these figures indicate that such magazines are very popular thus have a larger, more varied target audience. This means creating a magazine that will appeal too such an audience will be more effective as the conventions are widely accepted.

As you can see from the print screen, Music magazines have a high readership figure however mainly with Males.