1. ABOUT :
Billboard magazine

2. About Billboard
Billboard is the world's most influential music media brand reaching key executives and tastemakers in and
around the music business through Billboard Magazine, Billboard.biz, Billboard Conferences, Billboard
Bulletin, and other targeted newsletters, and millions of music fans through Billboard.com and Billboard Events.
The Billboard brand is built on its exclusive charts and unrivalled reporting on the latest news, issues and trends
across all genres of music. Billboard receives hundreds of millions of brand impressions daily through many
strategic relationships with major companies across various industries. These relationships leverage Billboard's
brand recognition, proprietary chart data and information resources to develop products, live events and
print, television, radio, digital and mobile platforms. In addition to North America, Billboard operates businesses
in Brazil, Greece, Japan, Korea and Russia.
Institution - The magazine is "Billboard" published weekly and the first issue was published in 1894. Published
by the American entertainment publishing company Prometheus Global Media, formerly know as e5 Global
Media. Billboard.com is Billboard's consumer-facing Internet arm, which attracts more than 4 million unique
visitors each month in more than 100 countries. An ever-growing community of passionate music
fans, Billboard.com's readers rely on the site for music news, videos, charts and more. Billboard is the flagship
property for the Billboard Information Group, which also consists of Billboard.biz, Billboard.com, Billboard
Chart Alert, Billboard Information Network (BIN), Billboard Directories, Billboard Licensing & Events and Radio
& Records. Billboard's many strategic partners include Fox-TV, Microsoft, Reuters, Sirius Satellite
Radio, Telemundo, Univision Radio, ABC Radio Networks, Azteca America and Billboard sister companies
Nielsen Sound Scan and Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems.
Price: The magazine is quality magazine, with a high cost of £5.50 in the UK, however this high price maybe due
to the magazine been imported from the U.S.
Audience - In 2008 achieved a circulation of 18,385, a 29% drop from 2002. Although the target audience of
"Billboard is primarily the U.S, the magazine is also published in the UK.
Publisher :
Billboard is owned by Prometheus Global Media, a diversified company with leading assets in the media and
entertainment arenas, including: Music (Billboard and its related conferences and events, including The Billboard
Latin Music Awards), Entertainment (The Hollywood Reporter, Backstage, Show East, Cine Asia, and Cine
Europe); and Advertising & Marketing (Ad week, Ad week Conferences and The CLIO Awards).

3. Task 6 Choose a musical genre/genres to feature in your magazine. List below the
names of bands/artists that are part of this genre, a brief history of the genre and
the type of imagery associated with it.
POP MUSIC
In general
Pop music is the abbreviation of popular music.
Pop music is an ample and imprecise category of modern music not defined
by artistic considerations but by its potential audience or prospective
market. Pop is music composed with deliberate intent to appeal to the
majority of its contemporaries.
In opposition to music that requires education or formation to appreciate, a
defining characteristic of pop music is that anyone is able to enjoy it. Artistic
concepts such as complex musical form and aesthetics are not a concern in
the writing of pop songs, the primary objectives being audience enjoyment
and commercial success.
History
In contrast to genres with clear origins and a traceable evolution, pop
developed, and continues to expand, as a haphazard merging of styles. Pop
is an amalgam of successive fashions, of elements of many differing styles
that have been successful over the years and have ended up incorporated
into the genre. This section introduces the most significant tunes of each
decade, and shows the progression of pop to its current form.

4. Pop artist
Beyoncé
LMFAO
Katy Perry
Enrique Iglesias