Popstar! Magazine is a worldwide released teen magazine

Teen magazine

Teen magazines are magazines aimed at female teenage readers. They usually consist of gossip, news, fashion tips and interviews and may include posters, stickers, small samples of cosmetics or other products and inserts. Magazines targeting teenage boys are not often called teen...

 featuring news stories on celebrities.

History

Popstar! Magazine is a nationally recognized teen-entertainment magazine for kids ages 10 to 16. It was founded by editor in chief Matthew Rettenmund and was first published on October 15, 1998, with the then-new boy band 98 Degrees

98 Degrees

98 Degrees is an American adult contemporary boy band consisting of four vocalists: brothers Nick and Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and Jeff Timmons. The group was formed by Timmons in Los Angeles, California....

 on its inaugural cover. Popstar! was the first U.S. teen-entertainment title to be published in full color and on glossy paper throughout. In a September 1, 2004, article in Folio

Folio (magazine)

Folio is a literary magazine founded in 1984 and based at American University in Washington, D.C. It publishes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction twice each year. Folio is also known for interviews with prominent writers, most recently Ann Beattie, Alice Fulton, Leslie Pietrzyk, Gregory Orr,...

magazine, media critic Simon Dumenco wrote, "Popstar!, in short, created a new blueprint for the teen celebrity magazine market," arguing that its design and approach influenced Bonnie Fuller and the tidal wave of celebrity tabloids of the early 2000s. The magazine has expanded to include fashion and beauty elements, albeit with a very celebrity-oriented twist. As of 2010, Popstar! was the oldest continuously published teen-entertainment title in America. Websites include PopstarOnline.com, Twitter.com/PopstarMagazine, Facebook.com/PopstarMagazine, MySpace.com/PopstarMagazine and PopstarMediaKit.com.

Since late 2001, Popstar! has been published by Popstar! Publishing, L.L.C., (formerly Leisure Publishing, L.L.C.) in Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

, with editorial offices in New York's Times Square

Times Square

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. On July 18, 2006, Popstar! published the first and only issue of Sprouse Bros. CODE, a general-interest magazine for boys ages 8 to 14 branded to Disney Channel stars Dylan Sprouse and Cole Sprouse.

Popstar! is known for being the first magazine to write about future superstars, including Hilary Duff

Hilary Duff

Hilary Erhard Duff is an American actress, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur, and author. After working in local theater plays and television commercials in her childhood, she achieved fame playing the title role in the Disney Channel television series Lizzie McGuire. She also reprised her role in...

, the Jonas Brothers and Taylor Lautner. It is also known for its mega posters, with double-sided posters including popular teen stars like Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber

Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actor. Bieber was discovered in 2008 by Scooter Braun, who came across Bieber's videos on YouTube and later became his manager...

, Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

Miley Ray Cyrus is an American actress and pop singer-songwriter. She achieved wide fame for her role as Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana on the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana....

 and Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez

Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place...

.

Circulation

An annual survey in 2007 by Experian

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 Simmons Research of Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...

 found that Popstar! Magazine tied Nickelodeon Magazine among American girls 8 to 14 for familiarity, with nearly one in three girls in that age group surveyed saying they had read or looked at the magazine. Circulation was 270,148 as of December 2008.