Music Magazine Questionnaire

For my research & planning I created a questionnaire and asked them various questions about music magazines, the questions included things like ''What genres of music are you interested in?'' and ''What attracts you to a magazine" I asked eleven people in total to fill in the questionnaire and be completely honest and accurate, The eleven people are from different age groups ranging from sixteen to thirty-six, also there is a equal amount of male and females, I think this will make my questionnaire results more fair and equal and will achieve a diverse and fair result for my research.

Im going to display some of the questionnaires in a chart display. The first chart is displaying how much of my eleven people who awnsered my questionnaire would be willing to pay for a music magazine, It turned out that two people would only pay one pound to two pounds for a music magazine and nine people would pay two pounds to three pounds, so its clear which is the more popular choice this has given me a good idea for what the price range I should use for my magazine and what would be more successful.

The first question I asked was "Do you read music magazines?" five people awnsered 'No' and six people awnsered 'Yes' I was surprised by this, I thought a lot more people would read music magazines.

Another question I asked was "How often do you buy music magazines?"

The majority of the eleven people said they never read music magazines, but then some people awnsered once a month, So I think I might make my music magazine to be published once a month because that seems to the most preferred release. 

Another question was "What attracts you to buy a magazine" The options were; Cover, Bands, Free Gifts, Inside Story, Main Image and Other. The three most popular results were the cover, bands, inside story and main image. I think these are four areas i'm going to focus on the most.

Also I asked "What influences your music taste?" people awnsered with a variety of answers but what started to trend the most was magazines and popular culture, so this has given me the idea that if most of peoples inspirations of music is from magazines then include in my magazine suggestions of artists and festivals.

The last question was "What bands/singers would you like to featured in a music magazine?" some of the answers I got back was Beyonce, One Direction, Professor Green, Noel Gallagher, Adele, Beady Eye, The Horrors, Skrillex and Olly Murs. So its quite a diverse set of artists that people are interested in.

All together my questionnaire was extremely helpful, its helped me narrow down what price i'm going to set my magazine, what the target audience will be interested in, how often I should publish the magazine and what I should focus on in the production of my magazine.

Here is what my questionnaire looked like: 

Do you read music magazines?    [ Yes ]   [  No ]

If yes then what types of music magazines?

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How much would you be willing to pay for a music magazine?

[Under £1]    [£1 - £2]    [£2 - £3]   [£3 - £4]  [£4 - £5]

What genres of music are you interested in?

Top 40

Punk

Folk

Rock

Country

Hip Hop

RnB

Pop

Other

How often do you buy music magazines?

Never

Once a week

Once a fortnight

Once a month

Other

Are you male or female?

Male [   ]

Female  [   ]

How old are you?

…………….

What influences your music taste?

Television

Popular culture

Bands

Websites

Friends/Family

Festivals

Magazines

Other

What bands/singers would you like to see featured in a magazine?

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