Music Magazine Moodboard

Here is a mood board I created showing different examples of music magazines with artists I listen to or know. From this, I can gather some key features in making a successful magazine cover. Since most of these covers are related to my chosen music genre (Pop/R&b), it will be fairly easy to derive common features from all these covers. For example, the cover star is all the main focus with either a black or white masthead and limited use of complementary colours. I really like the theme and layout 'Billboard' use because they have a limited amount of cover-lines, so all the focus is on the cover star and masthead.