Price: £2.50 per issue. Subscription is £71 for a year (Great magazines subscription print)

Frequency of publication: Weekly (52 issues per year)

Issue size: Generally, around 65 pages

Regular content: News, shots, lives, albums, gig guide, the ultimate rock star test, feedback, live reviews, SWAG, famous last words, subscription offers, posters, album reviews.

Featured articles: These are usually rock bands that interest the target market and are in order of relevance. In this issue: Green Day, Biffy Clyro, Devildriver, Alice in Chains, Every Time I Die, August burns red, bring me the horizon, 30 seconds to mars poster feature, Frank turner/creed

Target Market: Late teens, 16 – 24.

Media Pack: Branded as an exciting, loud and colourful magazine for the younger rock fan, it is ‘highly intelligent, opinionated, with a lust for life’

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Price: £5.44 per issue

Frequency of publication: monthly (12 issues per year)

Issue Size: Generally, 90 pages

Regular features: Q quiz, cash for question’s, Q mail, Q 50 (essential songs), now, last requests, Q hero, soap box, my record collections, access all areas, new to Q, A round with…, subscriptions.

Feature articles: Bands or artists of interest to the target market. These either feature in the regular’s section or as a double page spread feature. For example in issue Q336: Green day, Metallica, Madness, Bjork, Elbow, John Lydon, The Killers, Kate Tempest, Wiley, Billie Joe Armstrong, Johnny Marr, Blossoms.

In this issue: Cheryl cole, 50 Cent, Them Cooked Vultures, John Lennon.

Median age of reader: 34 year olds – Target audience aimed at an older audience of 25 – 45. The magazine is aimed at both older avid and more novice music fans. The reader is usually employed. The reader is interested in a variety of genres of modern music.

Media pack: ‘Q is the ultimate guide to modern music’ and has ‘unrivalled access to modern music’s biggest names’.

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