Georgiana Angus

There are a multitude of genres in music, and those genres have many sub-genres and some of those even have sub-genres of their own. 

Now a days their is a large and diverse range of people, personalities and cultures, it's no wonder that music has evolved to cater towards all these niche audiences. As someone who is creating a music magazine you need to think of the genre and who would want to buy from that genre. It would be very easy to claim it to be a Pop Magazine as that is a very large target audience and would guarantee an audience. But Pop, like all other genres, can be broken down and divided into sub categorise and an editor would have to decide if they wanted to include all those genres into the magazine and possibly lose readers as they were not interested in those genres, or they would decide on one specific sub genre and focus on that. 

It is important to understand that just because something is in the same category, does not mean they are the same style and that the same people like it. For instance, in the rock genre there is Heavy Metal, and Punk. People who like Punk may not be very interested in Heavy metal, and vice versa. So by studying this I can hone in on an audience and cater towards their interests in the magazine.