Thursday, December 27, 2018

The Year In People Covers

Here they are, every weekly cover published this year, starting with Hugh Jackman on the issue dated January 1 and ending with Kate and Meghan on the issue dated December 31. The big story of the year, no surprise, was Meghan Markle's path from engagement to wedding to mother-to-be. Meghan was featured as the main cover story 11 times this year, five times by herself, three times with Harry, twice with Kate and once with Kate, Camilla and the Queen. Coming in second were stories about HGTV stars, two featuring Chip and Joanna Gaines and one each featuring Joanna by herself, Christina El Moussa and Drew Scott.

Four covers featured Dead Celebrities, current (Kate Spade & Anthony Bourdain, Aretha Franklin and John McCain) and past (Whitney Houston.) There were three Celebrity Weddings (Drew Scott, Harry & Meghan, and Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas,) one Celebrity Divorce (Jennifer Aniston) and two New Baby covers (William & Kate and Chip & Joanna Gaines.) Most of the covers featured women or couples, only five featured a man pictured alone (Hugh Jackman, Tom Cruise, John McCain, Idris Elba and Michael Bublé.)

Note that all of the above refers to main cover stories. There were also dozens of what I call sidebar headlines, covering everything from the Getty Family Curse to Colin Firth's Shocking Marriage Secrets to the lives and loves of the various Real Housewives. No one in the Kardashian-Jenner family rated a main cover this year, although Khloé, Kylie and Brody got sidebar headlines, and there was only one story featuring a member of the Trump family, a small sidebar headline about Don Jr.'s divorce. (See it here.) In particular I continue to be intrigued by the fact that People is completely ignoring Melania.

The first 2019 cover features Bindi and Robert Irwin (see it here,) check back each week to see who we'll be talking, thinking and reading about throughout the year.

January 1


January 8


January 15


January 22


January 29


February 5


February 12


February 19


February 26


March 5


March 12


March 19

March 26


April 2


April 9


April 16


April 23


April 30


May 7


May 14


May 21
Melissa McCarthy on the latest cover of PEOPLE

May 28


June 4


June 11


June 18


June 25


July 2


July 9
This week's PEOPLE cover

July 16


July 23

July 30


August 6
Tom Cruise on the latest cover of PEOPLE

August 13


August 20


August 27


September 3


September 10


September 17


September 24


October 1


October 8


October 15


October 22
This week's PEOPLE cover

October 29

November 5
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November 12

November 19

November 26

December 3

December 10

December 17

December 24


December 31






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