Blender (magazine)

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Blender is an American music magazine that bills itself as "the ultimate guide to music and more." It is also known for sometimes steamy pictorials of female celebrities.

It compiles lists of albums, artists, and songs, including both "best of" lists and "worst of" lists. In each issue, there is a review of an artist's entire discography, with each album being analyzed in turn.

Blender teamed up with VH1 to create the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs", of which "We Built This City" by Starship was, at number one, the very worst.

Blender is published by Dennis Publishing. The magazine began in 1994 as the first digital CD-ROM magazine by Jason Pearson, David Cherry & Regina Joseph, acquired by Felix Dennis/Dennis Publishing, UK it published 15 digital CD issues, and launched on the web in 1997. It started publishing a print edition again in 1999 in its current form. Blender CD-ROM showcased the earliest digital editorial formats, as well as the first forms of digital advertising. The first digital advertisers included: Calvin Klein, Apple Computer, Toyota and Nike.

[edit] Woman of the Year

In October of 2007, Blender magazine, having picked fellow multi-platinum artist Kelly Clarkson two years previously, chose Fergie as their woman of the year.^[1]

In March 2008 Blender magazine featured Britney Spears.The cover of the issue was controversial because it was a composite photo of someone's body with Britney's face on it.^{[citation needed]}