second attempt at music cover

I got a focus group together after my first attempt at the music front cover and the feedback I recieved was that the majority of the focus group thought that there was to much black on the cover and it made the magazine look to dark and gloomy to seem appealing on a shop shelf. The group felt that it was very boxey and set to rights. So I tried to accomodate these opinions into my alterations of the cover and came out with this.

I then asked another focus group what they thought of these alterations and they said this was really good and they could not think of anything huge or specific that could now be changed again, sothis is my final draft of my music magazine front cover.