Research - Music Magazine Front Cover Research

During my research, I decided to look at current music magazine which fits the genre I look to focus on. The magazine which I decided to focus on are 'Billboard', 'Vibe' and 'Rolling Stone' which suits the hip-hop, rap and R&B genre. I look at current convention and features which were typical of music magazines. I looked at how they have presented their title/masthead, the kind of background image they use and how they structured the cover lines and main cover line. Here are the 3 magazines I decided to analyse: