Melody Maker

Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the world's oldest weekly music newspaper.

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United Kingdom - Music - Newspaper

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Founded in 1926, it was initially aimed squarely at musicians, and soon developed a focus on jazz. In the 1950s, it was slow to cover rock and roll, and increasingly took second place to the New Musical Express (NME). Nonetheless, its circulation continued to increase, and by the 1970s it was selling 250,000 copies a week.

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1926 - Musician - Jazz - 1950s - Rock and roll - New Musical Express - 1970s

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The magazine continued to feature rock and indie music, at the expense of covering emerging dance music, and included reviews of musical equipment and reader-submitted demo tapes, two things which set it apart from the otherwise very similar NME. It lost sales, and by the late 1990s was relaunched as a glossy magazine. It closed in 2000, officially merged with the NME (long published by the same company, IPC media), which took on some of its journalists and its popular features on musicianship.

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Rock - Indie music - Dance music - 1990s - Magazine - 2000 - NME - IPC media - Journalist

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