Each of these magazines show either the same or different genres, as well as time period. However, each of these magazines have similarities, such as:

• The masthead is always at the top of the cover, with the musicians photograph sometimes covering the font.
•  the musician is the center focus on the cover, as well as their name being very visible somewhere on the cover. 
• anchorage text supports the image
• each magazine sports their own colour theme which is shown throughout the cover, normally to suit the artist e.g Paramore's writing is orange, just like Hayley's hair.
•  The music magazines have the artist looking directly into the camera, as if they are looking at the reader.
• The masthead is normally a related font to the genre, such as Kerrang and Rock Sound being rock magazines, and so their font is distorted and ruined.