Just Seventeen

This article is about the British teen magazine. For the American teen magazine, see Seventeen (American magazine). For the Beatles song, see I Saw Her Standing There.

Just Seventeen, often referred to as J-17, was a fortnightly magazine aimed at teenage girls, published by Emap from October 1983 to April 2004. A special preview edition was given away free with sister magazine Smash Hits on 13 October 1983, with the first issue published the following week, on 20 October (thereby alternating weeks with Smash Hits).^[1]

Just Seventeen

Categories	Teen magazine
Frequency	Fortnightly Monthly
First issue	20 October 1983 (1983-10-20)
Final issue	April 2004 (2004-04)
Company	EMAP
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London
Language	English

Just Seventeen had become a weekly publication by early 1986. It quickly became the UK's market-leading teen-girl magazine^[2] until the launch of Sugar in 1994, after which sales began to fall. In 1997, the magazine was changed to a monthly format in response to declining circulation,^[3] and the magazine was finally closed in 2004,^[4] after losing a third of its readership.^[5]

References

1. "Just Seventeen, October 13, 1983". flickr.com. 5 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
2. "Teen Magazines". Magforum.com. Retrieved 16 November 2010.
3. "Just Seventeen reduced to monthly". MarketingWeek. 14 February 1997.
4. David Hepworth (7 June 2014). "Bliss magazine closes: Another glossy victim of the screen-age generation". Mirror. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
5. Day, Julia (10 August 2006). "Emap suspends teen mag Sneak". The Guardian.