Magazine Analysis

Kerrang! Analysis

Kerrang! Is a UK based magazine, focused mainly on rock music. It is currently published by the Bauer Media Group in Hamburg. It became the best-selling British music newspaper in the early 2000’s.

Initially focused on the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, the magazines main genre of music changes with the current trends.

The magazine has multimedia support in many different formats; it has a website, with competitions, videos, news and a page to subscribe to their magazine. It also has a digital TV station which plays on its website and certain other platforms, called Kerrang! TV which plays requested songs. Kerrang! Radio (or Kerrang! 105.2) is the magazines radio channel available on either the official website or other platforms such as Freeview. Whereas Kerrang! TV plays more mainstream music, Kerrang! Radio plays less mainstream forms of music. All three have separate facebook and twitter pages, to attract more potential audience members and alert their audience of news.

Furthermore the magazine is available digitally

Kerrang! also runs a yearly rock music tour, Kerrang! Tour.

 At the time of writing it had just released the magazine ‘K!1593’

The magazine releases 51 magazines a year, almost 1 magazine a week, A yearly subscription to ‘Kerrang!’ magazine (Digital and Physical) costs around £80