When researching online and with actual magazines i discovered that there are many genres of music magazine and they all have a certain genre of their own, it isn't usual for a magazine to cater for more than one genre of music. Everything about the magazine would depend on the genre of music, such as the colour pallete, the fonts used, the models on the front cover and images inside and the language and register. For example a rock magazine would usually use darker colours and have models from a rock band.
Billboard magazine has a pop culture genre, this means that the music and artists in the magazine are well known pop musicians. They usually use bright colours which links to the genre of music they represent and attracts a young teenage audience and usually females. They keep to the same kind of layout on their front cover which is quite simplistic but effective as it is easy to read and gets the readers attention to the important places. This magazine is popular and well known for having the top artists of the time in their magazine which gives it a large audience.
Smash hits magazine is well know and reconised as a popular magazine catered for a younger audience that are interested in the recent pop music at the time. This magazine usus bright colours and often use the colours pink and yellow as they are bright and generally catch the eye of a female audience. Compared to Billboard magazine this magazine is more busy looking and chaotic but it works well for the age of the audience it is targeted at. The font used for the masthead is always the same font but the colour of it changes depending on the colour pallette of the rest of the magazine cover.
