Research into magazine advertisements

To promote our video we will have to look at different magazine adverts which advertise the release of certain angles. This maxmises sales as people who are interested in the type of music will see it and may be tempted to buy it by beign impressed or intrigued by the artwork/title/text/price.
I believe an album advert should have:

• Album name
• Artist
• release date
• quote from appropriate company
• rating
• where it is available
• image containing either artwork or artist
• artists website
• possibly production company

I aim to have all of these things on my magazine advert to ensure that the customers know exactly what they are getting and where they will be getting it from. However i will involve all of these while still creating a attractive and eyecatching advertisement

This is an example of a magazine advert from Tinchy Stryder. The advertisement has a large picture of the artist with his name and track name he is promoting. The image is good as it is obviously him and he is dressed to suit his genre of music. The text also works really well as it is sort of the same style and it is big and bold. I also like the use of colour. However the text does not tell when the album will be released or where it is available, whih might cause loss in sales. There is no quote or rating to tell the viewer whether it is a good song. However there is a number which you can text which i didn't think about ti give the audience a chance to prebuy the album. I may use this pre order idea as it will encourage fans to place orders which i did not think about initially. However i do not believe this is an extremely good example.

I believe this is a better example of a good music advertisement. It is of the same genre and has better graphics and is alot more eyecatching and exciting which will encourage customers to purchase the product.  There is a clear house style with the use of colours and fonts and the name of both the album and artists are clearly visable. This is a good example as it lists the different places where the item may be purchased, there is also a picture of the album which i did not think of initially using but i believe this works well and so will take it into account.

However i do not believe these advertisements are relate to the genre of our album. Ours should remain simple, quite country and have the artist on.

More along the lines of....

I would like our music advertisement to appear on bilboards, but also magazines such as Q. Q reaches out to our target audience as it is quite indie. It is also a very well recognised magazine so if our ad was to appear in it, it would receive alot more attention and increase sales.

Other possible magazines to advertise our album could be:
Spin
Clash
NME
Top of the pops
Blurt
Kerrang
Bilboard
Our believe our advert could be advertised on any of these, as it will be of a high quality, but the genre reaches out to all people.