Market Research - Printscreen of Current R&B & Alternative R&B Magazines

To easily compare current R&B and alternative R&B magazines, I google searched ‘R&B Magazines’ to see what would come up. 

From doing this, I can clearly see that the most popular magazines, have large clear  fonts used for the mastheads, and most of them were placed at the top. I think that the most commonly used colour schemes include the colours of white, black and red, and I think this is because red represents power, and often money, which is a common theme in R&B music. I also noticed that the male artists were all presented to look quite stern, and serious, whereas the women were presented in a more sexual manner. In comparison to other music genre magazines, I noticed that there were more black and white cover photographs used, so that is something that I will consider. As with most magazine covers, none of their faces are massively obstructed, however some of the mastheads were covered by the artists on the front. I think that this depends on the credibility of the magazine.

I then google searched 'Alternative R&B magazines'.

From the search, less magazine covers came up, which makes me want to explore this area of the market, as it hasn't been covered in great detail yet. I saw that the magazine covers (dashed circles in red), seemed to be more artistic, as the other photos (circled in green), were the photos used for the rest of that particular issue. Fro doing this, it has helped shaped the direction of which area I plan to cover within my magazine, as I have seen a gap in the market.