Product placement

The NME distrubute their magazine in a variety of different countries and so do many other music magazine subscriptions. They are currently offering subscriptions in places like afghanistan and zimbabwe and currently are servicing over 1/3 of the world in over 180 countries.

Magazines are very popular as last year 625,127 music magazines were sold in the UK. The music industry is growing and therefore so is the variations in music magazines. The most popular magazines seem to lean more towards the multi music category and dont just take in one genre of music most of them take multiple genres and mash them together. Although there are subscriptions through the internet places like HMV and other highstreet music stores are starting to do subscription services as well and they are helping music magazines like Kerrang selling more issues and subscriptions.

Most of the Music magazines i looked at varied heavily in price some lower key magazines selling for £1.50 and the lowest which was DnB weekly sells for £1.00. Many of the more recognised brand names in selling music magazines tend to be more expensive and that is why theyoffer the subscription services making them vastly cheaper. However paying your subscriptions and collecting it yourself from places like HMV make it even cheaper then going through places like NME direct.

Supermarkets are also getting more involved with music magazines as they are selling issues of NME and KERRANG and seeing them in store is a much higher possibility than 1 year ago. They tend not to sell the subscription service but do have the up to date copies most weeks. What is more important is keeping up with the technology that is constantly changing. The invention of the ipad and iphone now means the apple store can sell the subscription through the app called imagazines and this means it is easier for people to go download there favourite magazines rather than going to the shops and getting it.