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The ''MusikWoche'' is a German music professional magazine. In its subtitle, it calls itself "The news magazine for the music industry". It is thus a
trade magazine A trade magazine, also called a trade journal or trade paper (colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine or newspaper whose target audience is people who work in a particular tradesman, trade or industry. The collective term ...
for the
music industry The music industry are individuals and organizations that earn money by Songwriter, writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music and sheet music, presenting live music, concerts, ...
in German-speaking countries. Since 2014, it has been published by Busch Entertainment Media, today under the name .


Target group

The magazine is aimed at buyers in sound carrier wholesale and retail, media partners in the press, TV,
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and radio sectors, music publishers, music professionals in the music production sector, concert agencies and all others working in the music industry.


Contents

Formerly on (mostly) 56, now on (circa) 40 pages, each issue is dedicated to current topics in the music and live entertainment industry.
Trend analysis Trend analysis is the widespread practice of collecting information and attempting to spot a pattern. In some fields of study, the term has more formally defined meanings. Although trend analysis is often used to predict future events, it could b ...
, interviews, background information, topic specials, trade focuses, market statistics, company portraits, live happenings, programme planners, address or contact overviews and a detailed
record chart A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of Sound recording and reproduction, recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, ofte ...
are among the regular contents.


History

In mid-March 1993, Munich publisher Ulrich Scheele planned to launch another magazine for the entertainment media industry in 1981 founded publishing house Entertainment Media another magazine for the entertainment media industry. He spoke to
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based
music journalism Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music. Journalists began writing about music in the eighteenth century, providing commentary o ...
Manfred Gillig-Degrave, who has worked successfully at various
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magazines such as ''Audio'', but had just suffered shipwreck with the music magazine ''Zounds'', on how to proceed. The
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held in August seemed suitable as a showcase forum and its opening date was therefore targeted as the completion date. On 5 July 1993 the zero issue was available and the marketing campaign began. The campaign officially began on 9 August with issue 32/1993. In the following issues, starting with news from Austria and Switzerland, the service was expanded bit by bit. In 1994, topic specials were published for the first time independent scene,
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law, radio landscape,
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. Furthermore, bi-weekly
jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
charts were introduced and the first "Who-is-Who" poster with the contact details of label staff was included.
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was Gillig-Degrave from July 1993 to July 2000. He then moved to ''Hannibal-Verlag'', which specialised in music books, but returned to ''MusikWoche'' with effect from 1 January 2002. Since July 2015, he has acted as
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. Norbert Schiegl and Knut Schlinger took his place. In 2000/2001, Christian Stolberg (previously ''
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'', afterwards ''
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'') replaced Gillig-Degrave as editor-in-chief. In 2007, the publishing house
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acquired the entertainment media publications from Scheele and the Ebner publishing group, which now held a share of around 83 percent. In 2014, after rethinking the strategic direction of the large Hamburg-based company, they were up for sale again. The newly founded Cologne-based company Busch Business Media seized the opportunity and has since distributed them together with the magazine range around ''MusikWoche'' and '. However, the editorial office was only marginally relocated from
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near Munich to the Bavarian capital. According to estimates by market experts, the revenue for Gruner + Jahr was in the "higher single-digit" million range.


Proper spelling and mode of publication

The proper spelling varies from time to time. Initially "MUSIKWoche" was used, most recently "musik.woche". Quotations are usually given as "MusikWoche". The weekly magazine is only available by subscription. It is dated on the Monday of the respective calendar week. A double issue is published at the turn of the year.


References

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