UK Top 40

This is the current UK Top 40, I have looked at it and decided which songs would fit in with my genre of my music magazine: Pop. This will help me decide what my front cover image should look like.

1. Trouble Maker (feat flo rida) - Olly Murs POP
2. Something New – Girls aloud POP
3. Little Things – One Direction POP
4. Beneath Your Beautiful (featuring Emeli Sande) – Labrinth POP
5. Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys POP
6. Gangnam Style – Psy
7. The Power Of Love – Gabrielle Aplin
8. Candy – Robbie Williams POP
9. Locked Out Of Heaven – Bruno Mars POP
10. Diamonds – Rihanna POP
11. Ho Hey – The Lumineers
12. DNA – Little Mix POP
13. A Thousand Years – Christina Peri
14. Not Giving In (feat John Newman & Alex Clare) – Rudimental
15. Don’t You Worry Child (feat John Martin) – Swedish House Mafia
16. Skyfall – Adele
17. Can You Hear Me – Wiley
18. Sweet Nothing – Calvin Harris
19. Latch – Disclosure
20. One More Night – Maroon 5 POP
21. Hall Of Fame – The Script POP
22. Shine Ya Line – Rita Ora POP
23. Give Me Love – Ed Sheeran POP
24. Beauty And The Beats – Justin Bieber POP
25. We Are Never Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift POP
26. Tidal Wave – Sub Focus
27. Back In Black – AC/DC
28. Anything Could Happen – Ellie Goulding POP
29. I Found You – The Wanted POP
30. Try – Pink POP
31. Love Is Easy – McFly POP
32. Live While Were Young – One Direction POP
33. I Cry – Flo Rida
34. Wings – Little Mix POP
35. Va Va Voom – Nicki Minaj
36. Right Now – Rihanna POP
37. Wonder – Naughty Boy
38. Gold Dust – DJ Fresh
39. Do You Think Of Me – Misha B POP
40. Highway To Hell – AC/DC

Out of the 40 top hit songs around 23 are pop songs, so this is over half and there for must be quite a popular genre of music. It's believed that around 60% of the UK's population prefer pop music to anything else. But this doesnt mean to say they wont listen to other genres of music, so i think my music magazine should be mainly aimed at pop but that it should also have a few other music styles just so it appeals to a much wider audience.

This photo is of all the artists from the Top 40 that i would class as Pop artists, the photos are also the kind i would like to have included in my magazine. I like it when the main focus is the artists face and there isn't much going on in the background becasue when you put text on top you want it to stand out not dissapear in the background. I think i prefer the close ups and medium close ups better than the other photos.