Billboard

                                                                        

Billboard

Billboard is devoted to the music industry and all its genres. As one of the oldest trade magazines in the world, it maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs albums in various categories on a weekly basis. The 2 most notable charts are the billboard Hot 100, which ranks the top 100 songs regardless of genre and is based on what the public actually buy. The other is Billboard 200 the corresponding chart for album sales. Unlike other magazines, the masthead isn’t incorporated into the magazines main music genre and so the masthead remains the same from issue to issue. This allows the magazine to be easily identified without any confusion. Billboard magazine fills the characters, B, O, A and d with the colours red, pink, blue and yellow; this allows the masthead to flexible with each issue and artist/layout of each months issue. The use of a variety of colours is a denotation of Billboard as a magazine as it covers a range of music genres and combines them into one magazine. The use of this allows an audience with a wider range of preferences to access Billboard as it doesn’t stick to one specific genre. What I also like about the front cover of Billboard is that it uses the Rule of Thirds, which allows the magazine to look professional and helps keep the images, and cover lines within a good distance of each other and presented well on the page.

From the magazine pages i have seen of Billboard, anything that they thought would be important to the reader was put in Sans-serif type. For example the magazines masthead and titles on every page are sans-serif. Since Billboard knew that it’s the younger ages that have such a wider taste in music, they decided to use Sans-serif type. Sans-serif is better at small sizes because the fonts survive reproduction and smearing because of their forms. Sans-serif is typically used for emphasis, as well as from my research I found out that Sans-serif is better for younger ages as the writing doesn’t look too serious.