1) The tag line being placed next to the logo helps to keep the magazine familiar with readers as these are some of the few features that are printed on every issue of the magazine.

2) The main image being placed very big in the centre of the magazine is representative of the fact that this is the big story in the magazine and so takes up most of the page.

3) The colour scheme is very bold and this is important to a music magazine as there are many music magazines it is essential that the cover has something that will attract attention and the bold red colour scheme helps to do this.

4) Since the title of the magazine is XXL the very big and bold logo is appropriate, eye-catching and clever and links with the theme for this particular cover of everything being big.

5) The front cover also has to be able to attract readers by its other stories as well. This cover places artist's names that are relevant to the genre of music and hopefully relevant to its target audience.

6) Certain features(Bar code,price, issue number etc) appear on every magazine cover. These are usually placed in the corner of the covers that its noticeable but not distracting to the rest of the cover

7) The question links to the image that's on cover and the fact that Jay-Z appears to be bigger than the Chrysler building which could be seen as a representative of hip-hop.