Magazine Analysis - Q (General)

Q magazine is produced by a company called Bauer, the company also produce MOJO magazine which is similar to Q. The target audience for Q are older teenagers to young adults (16 - 25), with music artists such as Kings of Leon, Lady GaGa, Cheryl Cole, Kasabian and Muse on the covers of previous copies the magazine can appeal to a varied groups of music genres, therefore having a large target market. The magazine is published monthly and costs £3.99. The circulation of Q magazine for June 2007 was 130, 179, however the last six months of 2009 showed a fall to 94,811, this may be due to more music magazines now available in shops or online. The NRS website did not show any information on Q magazine.

Annotated analysis of cover.