Music Magazine Survey

Kellie Nee

Age and Gender

• Most of the people that answered my survey were between 16-20. This age group were 80.95% of my final answers. The other 15% of my answers were from the age range of 40+ and 15 and under. This meant that I could collaborate a variety of answers from my survey from a variety of people. I think that my target audience for my magazine will be from 16-20, so the results that I have collected will be helpful for when I am planning my magazine and thinking about my target audience.

• The majority of the people that took my survey were female. This meant that I had to think about the different answers given as most of them were from a female perspective, I also have to look at the male answers as I might choose a balance of male and female for my own music magazine.

Musical Genres

• The answers that I collected from my survey are very varied for favourite musical genres. The two most popular genres were Pop and Indie. From looking at the results from this question, it will help me decide what kind of artists to include in my magazine which will appeal to the majority of my target audience. By knowing what kind of music people enjoy, this will help me when planning most aspects of my own music magazine.

Music Magazines

• I decided to include some questions in my survey to find out what people like most about music magazines. From my results I can conclude that people buy magazines for mainly entertainment (45%) and finding out about events (25%). I also found out that the things that they like most in music magazines are Interviews (55%) and articles (20%).

• From looking at my results, it will help me to decide what kind of things to include in my magazine and what things will appeal to the target audience the most. By choosing to include things that people will want to see will help with audience engagement and would help with purchases of future magazines if this was the next process.

£££

• I decided to ask a question about how much people would pay for a magazine to find out what would be an ideal price for my own music magazine. From my results, I found out that the most popular price which people would pay for a magazine was £2-£3. The least popular result was £4+, this suggests that this is too expensive and the most popular result is a balanced price which isn't too much for the readers but is enough to cover the cost of the magazine.

What you would like to see more of in music magazines?

• I decided to ask the question of what people would like to see more of in music magazines to help me with my planning of my own magazine as I will have an idea of what people will want to see and what will appeal to them. The most popular answers were interviews and events. From looking at the results which I collected I can decide which things should appear the most in my magazines and I can also see what people don’t want to see as much of in magazines as they don’t think they are as interesting.