Billboard Contents Page Examples

From this selection of Billboard magazine contents pages, you can clearly see the similarities between issues:

• The magazine uses a very clear layout to make it much easier to find what you want to read
• The stories and features in the magazine are all split off and separated into different sections, for example 'In every issue' and ' Features'
• There are sections for online news promoting the magazine's website. It includes exclusive stories
• There are four pictures promoting stories in each issue, with the biggest picture being incorporated with the text. This is to emphasise the importance of that particular story
• The large column down the left side takes up a large chunk of the page. This is showing the charts at the time of the issue. This isn't usually found on the contents page of music magazines however Billboard also creates charts so this is to promote it
• Some issues have an advert in them at the bottom to promote subscribing to the magazine showing covers of previous issues on it