This is a magazine cover for Q i have annotated it by identifying who the audience are and who would read it. 

I believe that they have made the cover photo aesthetically pleasing and well presented. They used the main things that people notice when looking at a magazine which includes the masthead, main cover line/star, plug, pug, captions, and so on. 

Their audience is mainly millennials or generation X , the people  that generally read this type of magazine are well educated people that have spear time to read and listen to different types of music, they are also a mid age which isn’t exactly overly old. I can notice that Q magazine use a very little amount of colour for example there main colours are red,white,black and a little yellow. I think that they’ve done well in making the contrast of these colours fit into the theme of the magazine. They’ve made sure that there is enough information on the front cover and it looks as if it’s going to entice the audience to read it. I believe that because it’s got a very busy front cover it will gain more people’s opportunities to buy it.