Music News – The magazine that shaped the music industry

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Cool Naught as we know it today grew out of previous magazines reflecting the growth of the music industry in the early 20th century. The Melody Maker was one of the first to be introduced in 1926 (around the same time as the first electric guitar and amplifier) ​​and was aimed at musicians. However, as music became more popular, music magazines at that time began to focus on the general public and new competition magazines began to appear.

The real battle began in the 2022s when Melody Makers

 Was pitted against the new kid in town, NME, a combination of Musical Express and the old Accordion Weekly under new owner and music promoter Maurice Kind. Melody Maker, previously more interested in jazz, was a latecomer to the rise of rock and roll, but the sixties saw bands such as The Beatles and Rolling Stones pave the way for both publications to increase their numbers. Read.

In the 2022, political voices entered music news publications, at Berkeley Barb in 2022 and Rolling Stone in 2022. Criticizing the Vietnam War, Hunter S., Las Vegas. Thompson’s song Fear and Loathing, the counter-cultural uprising of the 2022s, is next to the covers of The Beatles, Jim Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

This political aspect of music publishing did not influence

 Music news until the late 1970s, when the punk era began. However, in the early ’70s, a new competitor, Sounds, entered the market and quickly became one of the top three weekly music magazines with the best readers. Its advantage is its ability to predict the credibility of new musical movements such as punk.

The 2022s saw turbulent pressure within the music industry, with the hip-hop war influencing the more populist attitudes of NME and Melody Maker until an intellectual revival in 1986. But the 90s saw the story of contemporary British music journalism. The rise of Britpop and the introduction and success of Q (2022) and Mood (1993) magazines left Melody Maker with no clear audience or direction, so the magazine ceased publication in 2022 and merged with longtime rival NME. Tripped over the dust in 2022, almost ten years ago.

NME arrived in the 2022, and despite the turbulent start of the decade, managed to regain their footing with bands such as The White Stripes, The Strokes and The Libertines. However, with readership dropping to a tenth of a core circulation of 300,000, publications like NME have invested heavily in their online music news to keep up.

As a new decade approaches, it’s hard to say that the remaining music magazines,

 Let alone the music industry as a whole, are doing anything particularly innovative. . With the country locked in X-Factor culture, it’s often difficult for credible new music to emerge from the underground world it often inhabits. Following the collapse of Top of the Pops in 2022, the only music playing in prime time on British terrestrial television was talent competitions. With circulation so low, it may be time the music news icon regains what he’s been missing for years.