Music press history time line1950's- In the 50's era, the press were always positive about the artists. The press were very simple and only focused on upcoming events and the charts. The magazine NME was released in 1952 and was the first magazine to feature a music chart.
1960's- In the 60's era, bands like 'The Beatles' and 'The Rolling Stones' arrived and brought with them a new music drug culture which would start to change the way music was written.
Early 1970's- The press still seem to be uncritical on artists until the 'Progressive Rock' genre came about as bands were criticized due to the amount of money they would spend on lasers and lighting.
Mid 1970's- during this era the music press starting splitting in two directions. one direction was magazine such as 'Melody Maker' which focused still on the simple proper music and techniques used. Whereas the 'NME' magazine took a different approach, where they'd focus on the meanings and the political side to bands and their lyrics. This change in NME's style was mainly due to the genre 'punk' with their anti-establishment lyrics.
Late 1970's- NME rapidly decreased in popularity due to its new style of politics and how it no longer writes about the 'normal bands.
1980's- Magazines started to mix it up with their styles by changing its layouts, content and fonts. this made the magazines more exciting and eye-catching for the reader. For
example 'BLITZ' magazine became popular because of its new content.
1990's- In this era video technology came about and began to change to music press. Now this meant artists could become popular due to their new music video rather than the quality of their song. 'MTV', A new music video TV channel became very popular and helped broadcast songs and their new videos nationally. Nearly all new singles released came with a music video.
Early 2000's- During this era the internet became very popular and with this so did blogs. this now meant the magazines decreased in popularity due to attention getting drawn to music bloggers who gave a more democratic view on new music.
Present- Nowadays 'music press' has lost its overall music magazines. As most magazines that still run have very specific music genres. Also due to the quick rise of the internet many magazines and even artists have their own websites so music fans can easily watch and listen to their favorite artists at any time. These websites feature anything from music videos, to interviews which allows the users to explore and find out mostly anything about the music industry. Some examples of online music magazines now is NME online, MOJO and Q.
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