Analysis of music artists and music magazine adverts

Adverts in music magazines are an important part of promoting an artist and presenting the artist to their audience. Artists follow conventions in their magazine adverts in order to appeal to their audience and promote themselves. overall through this promotion of themselves they are promoting their music, which is the goal of the music artist.

 Here is a magazine poster from the music magazine Rock Sound of the Alternative rock band Twenty One Pilots. It uses the conventions of showing the artists themselves, where they are are performing on stage here. It also shows the bands logo which is on the drums, so something is easily associated with the band, to make them more recognizable through this promotion.  There is also the magazines logo in the corner to show where the poster came from if it is removed from the magazine.

Here is another Music magazine poster which follows similar conventions to the previous. It is a poster of the rap artist Childish Gambino for his new album. it follows the convention of showing the artist themselves, where here he is in a performance pose. It also shows his new album name for the recognition and promotion of him and his music. It also has the Magazines name small at the bottom.

here is a magazine poster for the well known pop boy band One Direction. This follows the conventions with the artists being shown, although they aren't in any performance stance it still follows the convention. Their band name is also displayed large and bold typography for recognition and promotion. The magazines name is also shown in the corner. so although this is a lot different to the posters from the other genre it still follows the basic conventions of what a music poster is.

The importance of following the conventions is so that the artist promotes themselves successfully. having an image of the artists themselves allows the audience to recognize what they look like, what their style is and what type of personality they are trying to show. The audience is more likely to listen to your music if the recognize you and like your style and such. Also, having the artists name of logo allows the audience to associate that with the artists music, meaning even if they don't see an image of the artist they can still recognize them.

Music posters that inspire me are:

These posters all inspire me because they empower the artists and make a statement.