[1] 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, interviews, background information, topic specials, trade focuses, market statistics, company portraits, live happenings, programme planners, address or contact overviews and a detailed record chart are among the regular contents.
[4] In 1994, topic specials were published for the first time independent scene, multimedia law, radio landscape, Folk music.
Furthermore, bi-weekly jazz charts were introduced and the first "Who-is-Who" poster with the contact details of label staff was included.
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 Blickpunkt:Film [de].
According to estimates by market experts, the revenue for Gruner + Jahr was in the "higher single-digit" million range.