Music Magazine Cover Artists

The Rolling Stones magazine is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone magazine changed its format in the 1990s to appeal to younger readers, often focusing on young television or film actors and pop music. The magazine is a perfect example of how audiences can be attracted to a magazine because of the artist on the cover. Many artists have graced the cover many times, some of these pictures going on to become iconic. The Beatles, for example, have appeared on the cover over thirty times, either individually or as a band.

The wikipedia link below gives an alphabetized list of individuals and groups that have appeared on the cover; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_celebrities_who_have_appeared_on_the_cover_of_Rolling_Stone_magazine


As seen in the above list, it is not always strictly music artist's who appear on the cover of music magazines. Magazine editors will use people on the cover that are controversial or currently liked, either of these will get their magazine off the shelves.



When considering this, I therefore need to ensure that my cover image of an artist is strong and addresses the audience to intice them to read the magazine.