Melody Maker

The British Melody Maker was the oldest weekly music magazine in the world. The paper, founded in 1926, was originally planned as a magazine for musicians, later focused on jazz with Max Jones as one of the leading authors, then from the 1950s slowly on rock 'n' roll and all the styles that developed from it.

In the circulation competition of the 1970s with the New Musical Express , the Melody Maker only achieved second place, but still achieved a circulating circulation of 250,000 copies. In 2000 it merged with the New Musical Express , with the NME retaining the editing and format and taking over some journalists and features from the long-unsuccessful Melody Maker .