Ancillary Research 2: What is an album magazine advert?

What is an Album Magazine Advert?

Magazine Album Adverts are advertisements that are published in magazines to promote an artists most recent album release. The advert will also enable the public or the bands chosen target audiences to know the song releases

Magazine adverts are advertisements in magazines that promote the artists and the release of a new album. They let the target audience know of new music by artists as well as the release date of the music and possible features the album will contain along with giving information on how to purchase the album.

The general, widely used template for an album magazine advert looks like this:

The advert follows a style, layout and design similar to the actual album. Artists do this to create a more branded appearance for the album, or use an overarching colour design (such as The Weekend) or font (found in Bruno Mars' work) to apply to the design. An Album Magazine Advert is popularly found as a single page spread, though double-page spreads are not uncommon and feature information on the album cover, artists name, album title, a ( or multiple) magazine reviews, the release date and any other information to the artists or bands social media or ways to contact the institution.

Here is a range of different album magazine covers that show a range of different artists work:

'Club Paradise Tour' by Drake-