Blondie Sunday Girl 1979 Poster

Photograph Description

Blondie Sunday Girl 1979 Poster

measures 11×17″ inches / 28 x 43 cm

This is an original UK trade advertisement for Blondie “Sunday Girl” dated 1979.

New Musical Express / NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website[1] and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a ‘rock inkie’,[2] the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a free publication, before becoming an online brand which includes its website and radio stations.

As a ‘rock inkie’, NME was the first British newspaper to include a singles chart, adding that feature in the edition of 14 November 1952. In the 1970s, it became the best-selling British music newspaper. From 1972 to 1976, it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism[citation needed] then became closely associated with punk rock through the writings of Julie Burchill, Paul Morley, and Tony Parsons. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s, changing from newsprint in 1998.

The magazine’s website NME.com was launched in 1996, and became the world’s biggest standalone music site, with over sixteen million users per month.

By December 2017, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, average distribution of NME had fallen to 289,432 copies a week,[9] although its then-publisher Time Inc.

In March 2018, the publisher announced that the print edition of NME would cease publication after 66 years and become an online-only publication.

NME was acquired in 2019 by Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies, which put all of its music publications under the NME Networks brand in December 2021, when the company was restructured.