Generic Conventions

As my magazine is Pop/R&B, I will look at the conventions of each page of existing pop magazine that also feature R&B artists . 

As pop is arguably the most popular genre, the front cover of pop magazines usually includes a very well known and current pop artist. Pop magazines usually do not include sub images on their front covers, this could be because the magazine wants all the focus to be on the featured artist shown on the front cover as they are likely to be very famous. They may feel like this artist is able to sell this magazine on their own without showing any others. The model usually covers the masthead of the magazine as well for the same reason. Magazines such as Billboard do this. They also tend to not have very bold sell lines, this could be so that they do not take away the attention from the model. Billboard in particular have a very clear colour scheme, which is different for each issue.