Analysis of ‘Billboard’- (Taylor Swift-Country)

The music genre of this particular magazine is country but this magazine does all types of genres but for this particular issue the focus is country. The target audience of this magazine is girls starting from the ages of fifteen and onwards, boys will not be interested in this magazine because it is too girly for them and the songs that this singer sings will not relate to them either. You can tell this because of the songs that she sings and her image as well.

The main image is of the singer/songwriter Taylor Swift and the image is at the centre of the magazine which shows that she is the main focus of the magazine,she is on the side and looking at the reader from the corner of her eye. The image relates to the music genre of country music because she looks natural and the colors that are used are light they are not dark colors; the colors are white, yellow etc which are bright colors. The image is at the centre of the page and it takes most of the room. The make-up and clothes all look natural because the make-up is not dark and the clothes are white, which are light and not dark. The colors that are used are white and yellow; the colors contribute to the mood of the image because the magazine is calm and the colors that are used are also calm. The image relates to the target audience because she looks young and pretty and many teenage girls would want to look like her and would love to be her as well, she is also young and the target audiences of this magazine are also young girls.

The magazine is called ‘Billboard’ which talks about the top singles in America and the celebrities that are on the magazines have had a big number one single or they have made some impact on the music industry. The font on the magazine is the same style and there are two types of colors that the font is in which is white and yellow, and the sizes of the fonts are also different because the important stories and phrases are big and bold and the less important stories and phrases are small and not bold. And the effect of this is that it creates emphasise to the important stories. The image on the magazine is at the centre of the magazine, which shows the importance of the image.


I will want my magazine cover to look like this because i like the way that it is set out and i also like the color scheme as well.