Music Magazine Cover Analysis 1

This is the NME Music magazine. I Have chosen to analise this magazine because It caught my eye when I first looked at it. The first part of it that interested me is the fact that a majority of the time on a magazine the masthead is the biggest and boldest font on the front cover to help people to see which magazine it is and try and draw people in to the magazine. Athough as you can see on this magazine the title 'NME' is a looks quite small compared to the main headline of te magazine 'Top 50 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR'. This I believe does a better job of drawing people in to read the magazine. Another way of drawing people into the magazine is offering free items with the issue. This also can intise people to buy/read the magazine. I think that another reason NME have decided that they dont need the 'NME' logo to be as big is because most people can recognise an NME magazine when they see one even if the logo was not there which proves just how popular the magazine is.What i also find interesting about the magazine is that the titles for the articles are not all in the same font. Some time magazines can be over powering to look at but in my opinion I think this gives the magazine an original and unique look and I think that it works. I have also noticed that the magazine does not have many pictures and the pictures that are on there are quite small. Even with this though they have managed to use the space wisely with short headlines and comments about the articles inside.