NME MAGAZINE

The New Musical Express ‘NME’ is a music publication which has been published weekly since March 1952, up until the 1980s it was more of a musical newspaper but it swiftly

changed into a magazine format. During the 1970s NME became Britain's best selling music newspaper and blew all other rivals out of the

water again in 1996 when NME.com was launched. It has never quite been rivalled by any other British music site and still reels in

over 7 million users every month.

ABOUT NME

NME has very strong following from teenagers and young adults who follow

Rock, Indie and Punk music. In the early noughties NME began focusing on more

mainstream Pop & RnB music but only for a short time when it began losing more

readers than they were gaining.

WHO READS NME?

Throughout the years NME has become well associated with Reading & Leeds festival, the company have had there own stage for the past few years and have had much critical acclaim from the press about how often the bands on there smaller stage outshine the main stage at peak times throughout the weekend. Bands

often move onto main stage the year after playing the NME stage such as Bombay Bicycle Club, The Vaccines

& Frank Turner.

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