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Upon research on Smash Hit's music front cover, I discovered that it covered a range of music genres such as Rock and Pop, reflected through the model's image. R'n'B type pages were also featured in a few editions. This broaden out the target audience and success rate was very high in the 80s and 90s for teenagers around the age of 14 to 17. Examples are below.
Pop edition. Britney Spears is associated with the Pop genre and was appropriate for the music magazine Smash Hits due to the reason that it dealt mainly with the Pop genre.
However P.Diddy is also included in the magazine. He is associated with the R 'n' B genre. Doing this creates a broader mainstream target audience of both those who enjoy Pop and R 'n' B.
The Motley Crue is assosiated with the Rock/Heavy Metal Genre. By being used in the front cover shows that Smash Hits also targets audience who enjoy this genre.
U2 are also fetured in this issue. They are considered to be a lighter rock type band. This differs greatly to those who enjoy mainstream Rock and/or Heavy Metal however (like above) Smash Hits does this to broaden the target audience, which has proved sucsessful.
Upon research on Smash Hit's music front cover, I discovered that it covered a range of music genres such as Rock and Pop, reflected through the model's image. R'n'B type pages were also featured in a few editions. This broaden out the target audience and success rate was very high in the 80s and 90s for teenagers around the age of 14 to 17. Examples are below.
Pop edition. Britney Spears is associated with the Pop genre and was appropriate for the music magazine Smash Hits due to the reason that it dealt mainly with the Pop genre.However P.Diddy is also included in the magazine. He is associated with the R 'n' B genre. Doing this creates a broader mainstream target audience of both those who enjoy Pop and R 'n' B.
The Motley Crue is assosiated with the Rock/Heavy Metal Genre. By being used in the front cover shows that Smash Hits also targets audience who enjoy this genre.U2 are also fetured in this issue. They are considered to be a lighter rock type band. This differs greatly to those who enjoy mainstream Rock and/or Heavy Metal however (like above) Smash Hits does this to broaden the target audience, which has proved sucsessful.
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