Kerrang! magazine research/product placement

• Targeted readers are teenagers into 'alternative' music such as metal, rock, and punk.
• It was first published on June the 6th, 1981, with Angus Young on the cover.
• At the time of Nu metal being around a lot as a genre, sales rose. This lasted from late 1990's to adbout 2003. After this sales decreased.
• It is a weekly magazine priced at £2.20 as it is a good price for the audience then.
• It is distributed to most shops such as corner shops and smaller high street shops, and most of the big supermarkets.
• The circulation of the magazine is 42,077 issues, this is the number of copies they distribute on average for every issue.
• Single copy subscriptions sales are 5,523 (5,062 in the u.k and the republic of ireland), results from a suvey conducted from the 1st of July to 31st of December, 2008.
• It has been published in the past in coutries such as spain, germany, and  released monthly in australia due to the large competition of free, local music publications/magazines.
• Kerrang! overtook NME as the number one rock magazine in the u.k.
• Posters are included in every issue, usually about five to ten of them.
• These posters vary in size from A4 and A3 size.
• Sometimes other free gifts are given out with the magazines such as CD's, sticker sheets, buttons and badges.
• Scratch cards are also sometimes placed inside, however these arent directly from Kerrang!.
• It was read by 386,000 adults, this was found out by a survey that ended in June 2012.