1. Research on Top of the pops magazine

2. Origins and history Top of the Pops magazine is a monthly glossy publication published by BBC Magazines. It features chart information, star gossip, fashion and beauty advice, quizzes, song lyrics and posters. It is a supplementary magazine for the TV show Top of the Pops. Which ended on the 31 December 2009. Magazine launch-February 1995 The magazine was famous for giving the spice girls the nick names.

3. The editorial style The editorial style of this magazine is quite informal and full on. It is filled with tons and tons of photographs. Some of which have been taken in a studio and other which have been taken from other sources like the internet. Also bold subheading as well as a use of heavy colours. The layout is done in a way that you would expect to find in a pop magazine. It has many sub headings and a image to go with every one.

4. The genre of the magazine The main music focus of this magazine is pop music. However it does cross over into other genres such as ♥ Grime ♥ R ‘N’ B ♥ Hip hop ♥ Alternative rock

5. Target audience The target audience for this magazine was originally young boys and girls between the age range of 10-14. However through the years they have shifted their target audience from boys and girls to just girls. Its format was gradually changed, with less music content and a demographic shift to young girls. Taken From(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops_(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops_ magazine)

6. Publishing house that publishes the magazine The publishing house for this magazine is BBC Magazines. BBC Magazines is the magazine publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. A list of the published magazines and the age groups they are targeted towards follows: ♥ Adult ♥ Teen ♥ Pre-teen ♥ Educational ♥ Pre-school (Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Magazines)

7. Competitors NME and Smash hits were previously competitors towards this magazine. However smash hits stopped publication in the 1990’s because it was overtaken by Top of the pop’s Magazine which kept the same key demographic. Giving the magazine the name top of the pop would make it more promotable because of the TV show. NME magazine is still around however its key demographic is different from Top of the pops magazine because it focus more on rock music.

8. The website http://www.totpmag.com/ The website is more or less online just so that consumers can be kept updated about the latest issues of the magazine and so that they are able to subscribe.