Initial research- who my magazine is aimed at

Inital Reserch - Who's my magazine aimed at.
I chose to base my magazine around magazines I am familiar with so that I could easily use me as a target audience and see if it is the sort of thing that would attract me. My magazine therefore is going to be based on alternative/indie music magazine. Magazines such as NME and Q take a similar style, the closest to what I am trying to achieve therefore I will choose these to research. The target audiences for these are large, young audiences of both genres so I have to make sure I try and fulfill these particular audiences needs. I feel this is a suitable audience for the ideas of my magazine being on new artists and the upcoming festivals. The typical readers of NME are students who don’t have much money to spare, looking for cheap gigs etc. Local gigs also and festivals for when university or school is out. NME has a 65% male audience and 50% of there audience are 16-24. People in my age group I have decided to go with, 15-20, also have more inclination than older people to go to see bands and read music magazines, that is why i have decided to aim my magazine towards them. By choosing this as my age group it will affect the story that i put on my cover. I will chose a band or singer that will have the style of music that is in the charts at the moment, as it is this age group that is affected by chart music.