1. Questionnaires results
I conducted this questionnaire to identify key features that people who buy music magazine want
and enjoy reading in the magazine. This research will eventually help me and influence what the
house style and contents of my music magazine. All of the questions asked were closed question
which collects objective quantitative data. This means I can create percentages and make analysing
the data easier.
1. Gender of the participants
Unintentionally my sample was
androcentric. This will end effecting
what type of magazine and what
features that are desired in the
male magazine
female
2. What genre of music do you listen to?
This question shows that the genres
30% of pop and hip/hop rap are the most
25% listened to genres. My magazine will
20%
focus on these two genres
15%
10%
5%
0%
indie pop hip/hop rap other
preferred genre

2. 3. How often do you read music magazines
40%
35%
30% This question was design to show
25%
20% how many people read existing
15%
10% music magazines. As 40% don’t read
5%
0% music magazines it show that
never once a twice a three 4+
year year times a
year
how often do you read musci magazines
4. What magazines do you most commonly buy?
30%
25%
20% This question will help me decide
15%
10% which magazine to take inspiration
5% from to help create a house style for
0% my magazine. From this question it
Q
NME
VIBE
KERRANG
XXL
don’t buy
ROLLING STONE
shows me that people prefer the
house style of rolling stone and
NME.
what magazine do you most commonly buy
5. How much are you willing to pay for a music magazine?
This question was created to show
<£2 how much people are willing to
£2- £3 pay for a music magazine. From
this question it tells me that
£3>
people are willing to pay £2-£3 for
a music magazine

3. 6. How do you consume you music?
120%
This question was designed to
100%
show how people consumer
80% their music. It showed that 100%
60% of the people who answer the
40% question download there music.
This how is shows promote
20%
more cd sale from music stores
0%
download music stores other
how do you consumer you music
7. If you download your music, where do you download it from?
This question shows where the
other people who download there music,
download it from. It shows that
itunes 50% of people download their
music from the site youtube and
spotify 40% download their music from
Itunes. This shows I should
youtube promote more downloads codes to
get more people downloading
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% music legally
8. What attracts you to a magazine?
This question shows the main
reason why people buy music
magazines. The main reason was
attractive people because of attractive people on the
contents of the issue front cover of the music magazine.
freebies and offers To make my magazine have a
greater appeal I will have an
attractive person on the front cover

4. 9. What freebies do you enjoy getting from magazines?
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
This question tells me that when
20% there are freebies in a music
10% magazine 60% of people prefer a
0%
the freebie to be posters
free download t shirts posters toys
codes
what freebies attract you enjoy from magazine