Publication Plan

Title = Popular
Positioning Statement = everything the fans want

Frequency of publication = monthly.

Price = £2.10

Distribution = Newsagents and supermarkets; magazine stands; concerts / gigs; music shops e.g. HMV.

Rationale = The magazine is based around the fans favourite singers / bands. The magazine will give the fans opinions and insights; articles and interview with the fans favourite stars. It is all about what the fans want to read and see.

Style = The style of this magazine is informal and irreverent it covers all the aspects of the different things that the fans want to hear about pop music and the singers / bands that have the pop music genre. The target audience is definitely teenage girls because they are the main people who like pop music. There will be main images to dominant the layout and then also smaller pictures for the different stories.

Regular Content
· Editor’s letter
· Number Ones this month.
· Letters from fans.
· The best concert at the moment.
· Quizzes and puzzles.
· Girls Aloud monthly column.
· Adverts for concerts.
· Reviews of concerts.


Feature Content
· Whitney is back.
· Big Gig’s Pixie
· The Saturdays on weekdays
· Kylie on top.
· JLS best tune.
· Mini Viva hot new thing.
· Leona Lewis – x factor star returns home.
· Alexandra Burke – journey on wards.
· Chipmunk – is getting chippy.
· Miley Cyrus – new album.
· Jonas Brothers – Nick learns another instrument.
· Cherly Cole – Different voice.
· Jon and Edward – Learn there moves.
· Lucie Jones – Welsh Wonder
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Magazine style

Cover lines = Arial

Headlines = Arial Black

Stand first = Arial

Captions = Verdana

Features first paragraph: Arial

Body text: Comic sans MS

Colour scheme = Purple, Red, Yellow