History Of Music Magazines

  • The First Music Magazine. Billboard

    The First Music Magazine. Billboard
    Billboard was the first international music magazine. It has some of the major music charts that track and rate the most popular songs and bands from all genres of music. It is released weekly and lists the top 100 songs of the week based on digital sales, radio airplay ad internet streaming.
  • Melody Maker

    Melody Maker
    Melody Maker is a largely a magazine for dance band musicians. By leicester-born composer, publisher Lawrence Wright. The first editor was Edgar jackson. In 200 it was merged into long-standing rival.
  • NME

    NME
    NME was created by Theodore Smythson. It is a English magazine that has been published weekly since 1952. It started off as a music newspaper but then in the 1980's it changed it appearance to a magazine.
  • Kerrang

    Kerrang
    Kerrang is based in the UK, mainly focusing on rock music. It first got published as a one off supplement in the sounds newspaper but later went on to being the best selling newpaper in the early 2000's.
  • Q Magazine

    Q Magazine
    Q is the most popular music magazine published monthley in the United Kingdom. The founders felt that older music was getting ignored and when published had the highest standard in photography and printing
  • Top Of The Pops

    Top Of The Pops
    Top of the pop is a British music chart television programme that was made by the BBC. Each weekly show contains the most popular and best selling songs of the week. It also released a chart for the week of top songs and the number 1.
  • Rolling Stones

    Rolling Stones
    Rolling Stones is a magazine published every two weeks that focuses on politics and popular culture. In the 1990 the magzine changed its format to appeal to a younger audience