Magazine Analysis - Billboard

The second magazine I have chosen to analyse is the most popular choice on my questionnaire, Billboard. Billboard is one of the biggest resources for music at the moment, having both paper and online magazines as well as their own chart system, the Billboard 100. Billboard has been around for over 100 years, originally being used for advertisements, but as music equipment such as jukeboxes became prominent in the 1930's, it became a great way to track popular music.
Billboard is now considered one of the most reputable sources of music industry news, and each magazine features many sections including a chart of the hot songs that week, big artist interviews as well as gossip and trends in the music industry.
Billboard is something I would like to aim to be like when planning my magazine, as I like their simple, bold house style and the wide variety of genres that they cover within each issue. In the issue I am analyzing here, I have looked for common trends in the pages and things I can put into my design to make it more appealing to a target audience like that of Billboard.