The denotations on this cover is a well-groomed female, wearing a dress covered with flowers, standing at an angle with flowers on her head On this cover, the connotations are  the artist is shown she is happy and joyful through the use of flowers, her wearing a dress and the background of pink which shows it’s feminine. Also, the use of flowers shows innocence. Her hair is neat this emphasises very professional.

The mise-en-scene, background is a soft pink colour. It is plain and taken in a studio which shows they wanted a perfect picture. The simple background causes the readers full focus and a simple thing to read. The artist’s body language is closed-up, which shows shyness but a little bit of her leg is showing as if she is teasing the reader. A part of the masthead is covered by the image this shows that Billboard is still confident that their readers will recognise their magazines name this shows it’s a well known.

The lighting is gentle and natural this shows the artist as soft and natural too. This type of lighting influences the rest of the image to be shown as happy and refreshing.
The artist on the cover is being represented as a delicate, slightly shy, pretty female. The stereotypical idea is that pink is a feminine colour and pink is used as the background colour here. Also, flowers are stereotypically feminine and

this artists dress in flowers as well as there being flowers on her.

The masthead on the magazine is bold and powerful. The black colour on a pink background makes it eye catching and manipulative. Other colours used are blue and yellow; the use of bright colours makes it a happy mood that is set which therefore makes it more attractive to read.

Layout is important for a magazine cover. The rule of thirds is applied on this cover, sub headings and other information is on the left hand side.

The target audience of this magazine is aimed at 13-25 year olds, who are most likely to recognize the artist bright colors and big bold writing shows it also targeting a feminine audience.