What is a Music Magazine?

A music magazine by its web based definition is "A music magazine is a magazine dedicated to music and music culture. Such magazines typically include music news, interviews, photo shoots, essays, record reviews, concert reviews and occasionally have a covermount with recorded music." Although this definition is correct its just one opinion of what a music magazine is, a music magazine to me is a last line of the physical form of music that people are still interested in, social media and on-line downloading have erased virtually every physical form of media within music, but music magazines are still standing and people continue to buy them, people prefer music magazines as they are seen to be more truthful compared to websites on-line which means that some people think music should be kept in its original form and I agree, a music magazine is a romantic style text full of truth and passion of people who want to keep physicality of music alive and not let social media keep its grip on reality.

A music magazine contains many elements to it these include:
Images
Interviews
Tour Dates
Reviews
Band information

All these the main elements that music magazines are bought for, these all make up key aspects that make up a music magazine, music magazines popularity now is laughable compared to its height especially for NME as they were arguably the biggest and best know music magazine from 1975-1982 where it was averaging 300,000+ plus from January to June compared to just march 2011 to June 2012 where it received just 289,000 this is a  huge drop even compared to the times of then and now as this was recorded for over a year.

The oldest music magazine in Britain is BMG Magazine, it was first created in 1906 and revolved around the acoustic genre (guitar and voice). 
The most popular music magazine in the UK however is is FLY which had a circulation of 106,586 when its figures where last recorded.
The magazine with the highest recorded circulation figures is The Rolling Stone which has an enormous circulation of 1,464,943 worldwide.

Many music magazines tend to focus on either one or few music genres to appeal to a certain target audience an example of this is NME(New Musical Express) who's target audience is Rock, Alternative, and Pop this shows that they focus on just a few genres to make sure their target audience is focused on certain groups of people rather than trying to make it appeal to everybody. Other magazines will focus on other groups of people they do this as if a music or any type of magazine tried to create a magazine with every genre it would not work pure and simply as too much detail would go into it and not enough detail would be created for each genre plus the magazine would have to be huge and hundreds more jobs would be needed to compensate for knowledge and background on each genre.

The future of music magazines doesn't look too good, but it doesn't look too bad as it has a steady of dedicated fans who look to magazines as their source of enjoyment and pleasure, one day not too soon into the future, magazines will become obsolete and I think it will be replaced by higher forms of technology such as the tablet but on a smaller scale. This does not say that sales will drop as new formats could rapidly improve sales if they are sold at a cost but at this moment in time music magazines are still standing and are still selling.