History of NME

HISTORY OF NME.

NME also known as New Musical Express is one of the fore frontiers in the music magazine created and founded in 1952 by Theodore Ingham releasing the first issue on march the 7th 1952. It is largely associated with rock, alternative and indie music. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 90s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles chart, in 14 November 1952 edition. In the 1970s it became the best-selling British music newspaper. During the period 1972 to 1976, it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism (self-involved reporting), then became closely associated with punk rock through the writings of Julie Burchill, Paul Morley and Tony Parsons.

The typical content in this magazine is giving information on up and coming bands that they believe will become big, sometimes true, sometimes not. Offering honest opinion on artists and promoting major bands to gain credit, Arctic Monkeys for a case, NME made that band extremely big by over hyping a lot when they started up the Sheffield band in 2003 and then releasing there first album in 2005 and it broke record's. Records that haven't been beaten to this day. I still think that Arctic Monkeys wouldn't be as big as they are today if it hadn't been for NME on every album they make.

NME uses direct access to engage the reader. It uses bold colours to attract the reader and using contrasting colours. Using contrasts in a different colour as the main focus colour of this magazine is red, but by putting a few of the main words in white on a black background.