Magazine Research - Billboard Magazine

The magazine by ‘Billboard’ is quite successful from the use of colour and text to draw attention to the artist, Lana del Rey. The genre of this magazine is particularly appealing due to the up-to-date artists that are typically included within the magazine, which attracts a large audience because of the attention-grabbing artists inside the magazine such as Lana del Rey. This means that having popular artists such as Lana allows a large amount of sales because of the large fan base the artist may have. Additionally, the colour scheme used on the front cover of the magazine is quite bold and vivid (similar to the bright and vibrant colours on  the artist’s clothing) since the cover uses rather bright colours which causes the magazine to become fairly conspicuous from the others and so are more eye catching to the audience who will therefore more likely buy the magazine which indicates the successfulness of the magazines front cover. Furthermore, the layout of the text is beneficial towards the success of the magazine since the centre text overlaps over the vibrant outfit the artist is wearing to emphasise what the what the text is saying and creates an eye catching overall appeal to the magazines front cover. Finally, the magazine centre texts a long list of other artists such as ‘Madonna’, this appeals to a wide range of music fans no matter what specific music taste they may have. This indicates that their will be a larger attraction to the magazine and so a wider audience will be drawn towards it and so reveals that the magazine is highly effective through the layout, colour scheme and chosen artists on the front cover of the magazine.