Contents page planning

Though it isn't necessarily a K-Pop magazine, Billboard has an edition made just for Korea that features K-Pop artists that would not be featured in worldwide editions. K-Pop is a very niche genre especially to be made into magazines so many popular magazines have editions made specially for the country.

To get inspiration for my contents page I decided to look at how Billboard presents theirs, as I want mine to look as legitimate as possible and using a reference that works with K-Pop will be useful.

I searched for examples on Google Images, and it appears that Billboard have a house style for their contents page of every edition:

I want to replicate this type of house style in my own contents page. I am going to do a textual analysis of one of their contents pages so that I know the typical conventions of a music magazine contents page and what I should include in my conventional magazine.



The left hand side lists current charts and is in a boldly different colour to the rest of the page. This is easily identifiable to readers as the charts due to its format and colour scheme, plus the small font that fits into the page neatly.
Three images across the top accompanied by page numbers show the main articles of that issue. Using images rather than an article title means the reader will more likely recognise who the people in the photos are and go straight to that page. It is more eye-catching as the reader will not have to look for the most popular artists, they will just see it along the top.
The main featured artist is in their own image in the middle of the page. They are completely separated and in a different pose from the other people on the page, indicating that they are the main feature.
Article titles and basic synopses are in the middle of the page following the colour scheme. They are evenly spaced so as not to confuse readers in looking for articles they want to read.