What relationship does the UK Music Industry have with UK Music Magazines?
There are about 74 notable magazines according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_magazines.
The most popular among them are Q, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Blender, Alternative Press, Paste, Vibe, NME and Spin.
The target audience for Q from the beginning were a minority of people who were buying CDs which was a new technology at the time.
Q has a circulation of 130,179 copies sold monthly in the UK as of June 2007 bringing it to an average of 43393 sales per year. Rolling Stone has a circulation of 1.4 million issues sold bi-weekly each issue in the US.
The Magazine Q is owned by Bauer Media Group, as well as Kerrang! and its sister magazine MOJO. Rolling Stone is owned by Wenner Media LLC.
These magazines make money by advertising music artists with news, interviews, photo shoots, reviews of concerts and records and a cover mount which is a compilation of tracks from different artists featured in the magazine.
Record companies get publicity for recording artists and enforce copyright protection for them. If a song belonging to that company is played without paying credit to the artist or the company, it is taken down to ensure that the artist always gets paid for their music.
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