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A music magazine is a
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dedicated to
music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...
and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news,
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s, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a
covermount Covermount (sometimes written cover mount) is the name given to storage media (containing software and or audiovisual media) or other products (ranging from toys to flip-flops) packaged as part of a magazine or newspaper. The name comes from the ...
with recorded music.


Notable music magazines

Music magazines were very prolific in the
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, with the ''
NME ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
'' leading sales since its first issue in 1952. ''NME'' had a longstanding rival in ''
Melody Maker ''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born ...
'', an even older publication that had existed since 1926; however, by 2001, falling circulation and the rise of internet music sites caused the ''Melody Maker'' to be absorbed into its old rival and cease publishing. Several other British magazines such as '' Select'' and ''
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'' also folded between 1990 and 2000. Current UK music magazines include '' Q'', ''
Kerrang! ''Kerrang!'' is a British weekly magazine devoted to rock, punk and heavy metal music, currently published by Wasted Talent (the same company that owns electronic music publication ''Mixmag''). It was first published on 6 June 1981 as a one- ...
'' and ''
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'' (all published by EMAP). Magazines with a focus on
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rather than
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and aimed at a younger market include the now-defunct ''
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'' and the
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Top of the Pops ''Top of the Pops'' (''TOTP'') is a British Record chart, music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was the world's longest-running weekly music show ...
'', which outlived the television show on which it was based. The longest running music magazine of the UK is ''BMG'', founded in 1903 by
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. BMG, which stands for Banjo, Mandolin, and Guitar, is the oldest fretted-instrument-focused publication and actively promotes acoustic instruments of all kinds. Major music magazines in the
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include ''
Rolling Stone ''Rolling Stone'' is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, San Francisco, California, in 1967 by Jann Wenner, and the music critic Ralph J. Gleason. It was first kno ...
'' (founded in 1967), ''
Down Beat ' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chi ...
'' (founded in 1934), and '' Spin'' (founded in 1985). '' Clash'' magazine was voted Music Magazine of the Year in 2004 and is the second largest UK online presence. ''Clash'' was also Awarded Magazine of the Year at the PPA Scotland Awards. ''
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'' has more of an "
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" coverage including
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,
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and metalcore. A major digital magazine from
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Melodic
Melodic has its focus mainly on (hard)rock, melodic metal as well as alternative music. Among classical music magazines, '' Diapason'' is the most read in France. An example of a nostalgia magazine is ''Keep Rockin',''krmag.com
/ref> a 1950s and 1960s nostalgia magazine. The premier issue came out in January 2009. The magazine features a mixture of current events surrounding that time period (e.g. concerts, car shows) and stories with original photos from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as some reader-written articles about experiences growing up during that period.


Covermounts

Several music magazines include a free album of music (usually a compilation of tracks by various artists), known in the publishing industry as a
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. The practice began in the 1980s with UK magazine ''
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'' giving away
flexi disc The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet, a trademark) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable. ...
s, and graduated to
mixtape A mixtape (alternatively mix-tape, mix tape or mixed tape) is a compilation of music, typically from multiple sources, recorded onto a medium. With origins in the 1980s, the term normally describes a homemade compilation of music onto a cassette ...
s and
compact disc The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then rele ...
s in the 1990s, with modern magazines such as ''
NME ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...
'' and ''
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'' frequently including cover compilations.Geoghegan, Tom
Are free CDs killing music?
''
BBC News Magazine BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. It is one of the most popular news websites, with 1.2 billion website visits in April 2021, as well as being used by 60% of the U ...
'', 13 July 2007. The tracks are cleared for release by the relevant
record companies A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produc ...
, and are usually released for promotional purposes.


See also

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Music magazines published in Australia Music magazines have been published in Australia since the 1950s. They peaked in popularity during the 1970s and '80s, but currently, there are still several national titles, including local editions of ''Rolling Stone'' and the classical music-foc ...


References

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