Review of 'Q' Magazine

Established in 1986 'Q' magazine is the UK's “biggest” music monthly.

It has found readership with the 90s 'brit-pop' generation, a predominantly male audience, who are young and affluent and have a wide range of interests. The magazine infuses music with lifestyle and has features on film, gaming, sport, comedy and gadgets; this is the magazine for the man with a diverse range of interests. Similarly it is not genre exclusive offering quite a broad range of music ranging from indie and alternative to hip hop and rap, although it's focuses more so on rock, indie and alternative. The artists are similarly varied ranging from The Strokes to Dizzee Rascal.

The magazines circulation is around 90,000 and it's readership is estimated at 550,000, of which 68% are male, the average reader is 29.

Pub quiz fact: It was originally called 'Cue' magazine, which people often mistook for a snooker magazine.