Music market
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| description | Music magazine |
| language | German |
| publishing company | Musikmarkt GmbH & Co. KG ( Germany ) |
| First edition | July 15, 1959 |
| attitude | July 1, 2016 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly / Friday |
| Editor-in-chief | Stefan Zarges |
| editor | Musikmarkt GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) |
| Web link | www.musikmarkt.de |
The music market was a specialist magazine for the music industry . The magazine was published until July 2016 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as numerous other countries.
The first issue of the magazine, founded by the music manager Hans R. Beierlein , appeared on July 15, 1959. The magazine was published by Keller Verlag in Starnberg until 2004 , after which the Musikmarkt GmbH & Co. KG, a subsidiary of Keller Verlag, was the publisher of the specialist magazine . The last issue appeared in early July 2016.
Content and target group
Musikmarkt contained the current German charts, most recently the top 100 album and single charts . In addition, other national and international charts (weekly and monthly) such as the German top 30 jazz charts were published. The magazine also contained news from the phonogram and live entertainment industry, including interviews and product launches from CDs and DVDs.
The music magazine was in cooperation with the Association of German Concert Directors from 2005. V. Co-sponsor in the award of the music prize of the Association of German Concert Directors , which is awarded annually alternately to artists from the field of light and serious music .
Together with the Federal Association of the Event Industry, Musikmarkt initiated the Live Entertainment Award in 2006 , headed its jury until 2013 and was the event's media partner until it was closed.
History and frequency of publication
Initially, the magazine appeared monthly, from January 1970 bi-monthly. From March 1975 the weekly charts were published in the magazine, two per issue.
From 1995 the magazine was published weekly.
Publication of the charts
Already with the first issue in July 1959 sparked the music market , the magazine The vending market from the official publisher of the German charts. The charts, which initially appeared monthly, were more sophisticated, as they not only evaluated the music box success, but also sheet music sales, the use of airplay and sound carriers, i.e. at that time record sales. The performance by live music bands was also taken into account. The list was valid for the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany, for West Berlin and Austria. The first number 1 in the music market charts was in June 1959 the title The Guitar and the Sea by Freddy Quinn. At the same time, this title was also the front runner in the slot machine market .
In the beginning the hit parade had a strongly fluctuating size (20 to 70 places), but from the beginning of 1960 it appeared quite consistently every month with mostly 50 places (occasionally a few more, up to 54 appeared). At the beginning of 1965, the number was reduced to 40 places, but the hit parade, which was now based on pure record sales, appeared twice a month on the 1st and 15th of each month. From that time on there were also the chart posters that were displayed in record stores. At the beginning of 1971 the music market switched to weekly publication (every Monday) and increased the size of the hit parade back to 50 places. The determination of this weekly top 50 was transferred to Media Control from September 1977 .
Music market online
musikmarkt.de was Musikmarkt 's web portal. In June 2010 this was completely revised in terms of appearance and content. After the relaunch , the site offered, among other things, an artist lexicon and a chart gallery as well as the music market handbook, an address guide with addresses of concert agencies, recording studios, record companies and other addresses from Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
On July 8, 2016, the last appeared musikmarkt newsletter. In it it was announced that the website could still be used until July 31, 2016, at the end of 2017 it was finally shut down. The partial stocks of the editorial team, the photo archive and a collection of folders for the Eurovision Song Contest are stored in the Center for Popular Culture and Music .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musikmarkt will be discontinued, musikmarkt.de ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 22, 2016
- ↑ http://lea-verleihung.de/verleihung/rueckblick/lea-2006/
- ^ History of the Single Charts Germany in the forum of germancharts.com; especially the post of October 7, 2014 from Jürgen
- ↑ Musikmarkt Hit-Parade June 1959 ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at www.musikmarkt.de, accessed on June 12, 2016
- ↑ news aktuell Switzerland "Music market industry magazine with a new website". (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 26, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
