Pop Website Research

I have researched into the top female pop artist and what there websites look like, so that I can create a website that fits our genre. Looking through these websites has pointed some things out to me that seem to be key to a pop website. 

1. The artists's picture must be on the homepage and in at least two of these examples they are the background of the homepage.
2. Hash tags are very popular and almost all celebrities/stars have them, so the artist needs to have a link to their twitter account in plain sight.
3.  Most of the websites are very clean with the exception of Miley Cyrus. But each is crafted to its specific audience and fans.
4.  Pop ups - Almost all of these websites had a pop up of the artists newest single.
5. The websites aren't complex, they are easy so they can be navigated around with ease to find what ever they are looking for.
6. Social media is a key part of music videos its a way for the artist to get known by more people and therefore most artists have at least 3 social network links on their websites.
7. The URL is almost always the artists name. 

Artist Name

Today we decided to change the artist name from Icona Pop. Here are a few ideas we had -

We decided on Xena as it was the most powerful name and it fits the genre were as some of the other names were more floral and natural matching the indie genre not pop.

Audience Research

Here is a mind map of idea on what we should ask whilst doing audience research, we will carry out our research on teenagers aged 16-18 as this is the key audience that listen to pop music. We are drawing up a questionnaire that will cover the main questions and not be too long as we know from last year if the questionnaire is too long people are less likely to fill it in correctly or want to fill it in at all. We hope to be able to get an idea of what viewers enjoy in a music video as well as being able to get a general idea of what music people listen too. There will also be an aspect of the questionnaire that will link directly to our ideas to see if the audience think that it is a good idea for the genre and song we have pick as well as getting to know if they believe it will capture viewer attention and be unique. 

Music Genre - Pop