The Media in Figures: Average UK sales of national daily and Sunday newspapers

THE UK sales figures for newspapers between March and last month saw the Daily Record sell an average 253,817 copies, down 9.27 per cent on the average net circulation for 12 months’ previously, March to August 2012.

According to the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the UK figures for the country’s main newspaper titles read as follows:

Daily Mirror – average net circulation, March to August – 1,039,742; down 4.3 per cent on the corresponding figure from 12 months’ previously;

Daily Record – 253,817; down 9.27 per cent;

Daily Star – 538,540; down 11.76 per cent;

The Sun – 2,268,455; down 12.14 per cent;

Daily Express – 527,315; down 7.88;

Daily Mail – 1,801,493; down 7.21 per cent;

Daily Telegraph – 550,315; down 4.75 per cent;

Financial Times – 256,478; down 14.4 per cent;

Guardian – 191,547; down 9.64 per cent;

i – 302,552; up 9.77 per cent;

Independent – 73,361; down 19.97 per cent;

Times – 395,496; down 0.9 per cent;

Daily Star Sunday – 336,335; down 28.35 per cent;

The Sun (Sunday) – 1,901,756; down 15.27;

Sunday Mail – 287,878; down 9.13 per cent;

Sunday Mirror – 1,039,693; down 4.9 per cent;

Sunday People – 418,601; down 8.79 per cent;

Sunday Express – 464,903; down 8.92 per cent;

Sunday Post – 239,475; down 12.51 per cent;

Mail on Sunday – 1,671,596; down 8.15 per cent;

Independent on Sunday – 112,911; down 8.15 per cent;

Observer – 219,600; down 8.15 per cent;

Sunday Telegraph – 428,174; down 5.66 per cent;

Sunday Times – 853,060; down 7.76 per cent.

Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation, September 6 2013.