Genre And Target Audience

For the genre of my magazine I had two genre’s that I thought would be good to do, they were country/western style music or rock/alternative style music. I wanted to do these because I thought both the styles are very individual so would be able to make the magazine completely directed at all areas of the music, without bringing in other styles. I enjoy both the types of music, so would find it easier to complete the magazine as I already have some ideas about the style of music, and the history of the music. To help me decided I went and looked at existing magazines in a shop, seeing that there were already lots of rock magazine and not as many country music magazines, I decided to choose country/western as the genre of my magazine. As I realized that there would be less competition in the music magazine market.

Now knowing what genre my magazine I could work out who my target audience would be:
The age group would be about 14+
People who are into country music, so people who want to know about certain things, like up coming gigs
People who are interested in a certain article that is in the magazine, e.g. a featuring band or singer
Musicians and music producers would be interested, wanting to know about different aspects of the music market at that present time
People wanting to know about new albums and singles out, and wanting reviews of the CD