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

THE UK sales figures for newspapers between May and last month saw the Daily Record sell an average 249,798 copies, down 9.37 per cent on the average net circulation for 12 months’ previously, May to October 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, May to October – 1,034,249; down 4.07 per cent on the corresponding figure from 12 months’ previously;

Daily Record – 249,798; down 9.37 per cent;

Daily Star – 538,358; down 9.92 per cent;

The Sun – 2,235,374; down 11.02 per cent;

Daily Express – 524,958; down 6.94;

Daily Mail – 1,785,365; down 6.50 per cent;

Daily Telegraph – 551,210; down 3.65 per cent;

Financial Times – 246,982; down 15.31 per cent;

Guardian – 192,728; down 7.28 per cent;

i – 300,044; up 6.18 per cent;

Independent – 71,233; down 16.25 per cent;

Times – 393,449; down 2.39 per cent;

Daily Star Sunday – 339,152; down 23.08 per cent;

The Sun (Sunday) – 1,883,847; down 11.98;

Sunday Mail – 284,198; down 9.17 per cent;

Sunday Mirror – 1,036,612; down 4.54 per cent;

Sunday People – 415,416; down 8.95 per cent;

Sunday Express -463,834; down 7.78 per cent;

Sunday Post – 240,634; down 11.72 per cent;

Mail on Sunday – 1,654,906; down 7.45 per cent;

Independent on Sunday – 111,320; down 8.56 per cent;

Observer – 220,686; down 9.49 per cent;

Sunday Telegraph – 433,014; down 4.07 per cent; and

Sunday Times – 835,496; down 8.54 per cent.

Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation, November 8 2013.