smash hits mag oz.

Didn't it go under earlier this year?

i think that was the english version. the oz version is still kicking around. i need a website addy, or an email address

Found the information on one from the websites & here's what they said :-

Emap shuts Smash Hits after 23 years
Tim Addington

Smash Hits magazine has been closed after more than 20 years of publishing in Australia, B&T can reveal.

The decision to close the bi-monthly magazine came as revenues from circulation and advertising continued to fall year-on-year as teenagers shun print titles in favour of the internet.

As well as Smash Hits, the publisher has also closed Skateboarding magazine. Staff at Emap were told of the decision on Wednesday and two people who worked on Smash Hits have been made redundant.

It is the first public act of Emap Australia’s new managing director Carrie Barker, who arrived from Emap UK in January.

Barker said the youth market wasn’t a priority for Emap Australia.

She told B&T: “It was a fairly simple decision. It has turned into a loss maker and that was because circulation and ad revenue was down year-on-year and the underlying trend was that both revenue streams were continuing to decline. This is because primarily the teen market is migrating in very large numbers to the website and away from paper-based products.”

The Australian edition of Smash Hits started in November 1984 as a fortnightly. According to ABC figures it had a circulation of 33,132 in January to June 2006 with a readership of 124,000 in December last year, according to data from Roy Morgan.

The decision to close Smash Hits Australia comes after the UK edition of the magazine was shut in February 2006 after 28 years.

Magazines aimed at the youth market face an uncertain future as young people opt to get their information via the internet rather than print products. In the UK many titles aimed at the teen market have invested heavily in establishing an online presence.

Was anyone here a reader of this magazine in its heyday?
When was its heyday?

What's guru Adrian up to these days?

80s. i get letter of the fortnight when i was in year eleven. remember blacktype? i wonder what happened to him.

guru adrian was in countdown.

Was anyone here a reader of this magazine in its heyday? When was its heyday?.

Me circa 88... had a whole stack of em until i got wise and started buying hot metal instead... I do recall my brother at age 17 asking if I could go to the supermarket and pick his copy up in return for first dibs on reading cause he was too embarrassed to be seen buying them :-)

got not get, that is what i meant. who was black type? someone find out.

i'm spartacus.

well, was one of the spartacus.

heyday was from when it started here in the mid-80s, was doing something like 170,000 copies i seem to remember.

declined through the 90s, as the boy bands died out, and tv hits - which covered the soaps and such as well, tended to tear each other throats and readerships out....

Guru Adrian was Countdown magazine

Fuck all you teenyboppers I was reading shoplifted copies of hit parader anyway

I had a poster from Smash Hits that had Dieter Brummer on one side and Dean Cain on the other. I used to swap it round regularly because I didn't want either hunk to get lonely facing my tween bedroom wall.

should have waited till the next issue of Smash Hits hit the newsagent then gone back and got another copy of the older issue for cheap. double hunk

AS IF, TINY. Do you think pocket money grows on trees? Not in my backyard it didn't.

it's already in the discount bin with the title/barcode trimmed off

Was it just posters of whoever was hunky, then?

i thought black type was david nichols

You thought correctly

black type was transplanted from the english edition. here, it was originally the english guy sent over help set up the local edition - trivia point: he replaced neil from the pet shops boys in the job in the uk.

it may come as a shock, but an anonymous smartarse can have many mothers and fathers. it was me and the production editor when i was there, david - and probably a bunch of others - were later.

Used to buy it in the mid 90's along with TV Hits and Star magazine. Then I discovered Juice magazine and realised I was a dickhead for spending my pocket money on the other three.

No, you just grew up.

Black Type!! Had totally forgotten about him.

I bought the Oz version for the first couple of years of its existence. Bought Countdown magazine too. Tim and Debbie!

I had a letter published in Countdown magazine once. It was about Cyndi Lauper and Johnny Rotten. I signed it Nick Rhodes' Green Undies. I was 11. God I was cool.

UK Smash Hits Annuals were bloody great.

There is a new book out on the history of Smash Hits in Australia. Incredible summer reading!

http://www.facebook.com/SmashHitsAustralia#!/SmashHitsAustralia?sk=wall