Chart music magazine questionnaire

I asked 20 people to fill out a questionnaire based on their views and opinions on music magazines, chart music and chart music magazines. My results were as follows;


1. Out of the participants I asked 11 were female and 9 were male.

2. They were aged 4 under 16, 6 were 16-25, 4 were 25-35, 3 were 35-45 and 3 were over 45.

3. 2 of the participants read music magazines weekly, 2 read them fortnightly, 9 read them monthly and 7 read ticked other. The answers for other were ones such as occasionally, hardly ever and not much.

4. My participants show that the most popular way to find out the weekly chart is the radio, as it was chosen first 9 times. The second most popular was internet being chosen first 6 times and TV was third being chosen first 5 times. Record shops and other were not chosen first at all.

5. Out of the people I asked most of them preferred R'n'b being chosen first 6 times, second favourite was dance and indie, third was rock, hip hop and pop which were all chose first 2 times each. Rap was not chosen first at all.

6. I was given a wide variety of favourite bands with most people having different ones, Paramore was chosen by 3 people however, also Take That, Muse and Black-Eyed Peas were all chosen by two people.

7. Again there was a wide variety of favourite artists.

8. Interviews was top being chosen first 8 times, upcoming artists/bands was second coming first 6 times, reviews and headlines was chosen first 5 times and gig information and upcoming Cd's were chosen first 3 times.

9. 13 people said they listen to chart music everyday, 3 said a few days a week, 1 person said once a week and 3 people said not much.

10. Most people prefer to buy albums as 16 people ticked albums and 4 ticked singles.

11. No one chose up to £1, 8 people chose £1-£2, 8 people chose £2-£3, 3 people chose £3-£4 and 1 person chose more than £4.

12. 11 people answered that they don't have a preference to a band or artist on the magazine front cover, 6 chose an artist and 3 answered band.

13. 17 people said that they prefer to download music and 3 people said they prefer to buy music.

17. 16 people said they would buy a new chart music and the other 4 said they wouldn't.