When looking into the music industry, I discovered how influential the music magazine Q was. Being a frequent buyer of the magazine I realised the impact it had on me when buying albums. The magazine is published monthly in the United Kingdom and looks at all different music genres. The magazine is well known for compiling lists. It has created many, ranging from "The 100 Greatest albums" to the "100 Greatest '100 Greatest' Lists". In the Q magazine I purchased, the magazine features a list of the '100 best thing I've heard all year' and '50 albums of the year', these reviews on the best songs and albums of the year may persuade the reader to buy the album/single. This has a impact on the reader when deciding on what is the 'right' album to buy, this is a way of promotion for the artist.
The magazine also features an array of advertisements from albums to live concerts. The magazine also advertises the ipod, stereos, headphones and places such as HMV where we can buy the music from. The magazine is mainly focused at lovers of music and is used to advise them on what to listen to.
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