The Media in Figures – Average UK sales of newspapers

UK-wide sales of the Daily Record averaged 232,696 between the months of September last year and February this year – according to official figures.

Says the Audit Bureau of Circulation, the average UK sale of the title between those months was down 10.35 per cent on the same period a year previously.

Other September 2013 – February 2014 average UK sales, says ABC, were as follows:

* Daily Mirror, 992,314 – down 5.72 per cent on 12 months’ previously;

* Daily Star, 506,850 – down 8.91 per cent on 12 months’ previously;

* The Sun, 2,125,498 – down 9.97 per cent;

* Daily Express, 507,791 – down 4.94 per cent;

* Daily Mail, 1,755,570 – down 5.65 per cent;

* Daily Telegraph, 543,272 – down 1.59 per cent;

* Financial Times, 237,130 – down 16.15 per cent;

* Guardian, 200,256 – down one per cent;

* i, 296,866 – up 0.55 per cent;

* Independent, 67,473 – down 14.09 per cent;

* Times, 386,883 – down 3.29 per cent;

* Daily Star – Sunday, 318,532 – down 13.93 per cent;

* The Sun (Sunday), 1,771,968 – down 10.94 per cent;

* Sunday Mail, 264,956 – down 10.33 per cent;

* Sunday Mirror, 971,723 – down 7.64 per cent;

* Sunday People, 391,992 – down 11.06 per cent;

* Sunday Express, 443,044 – down 7.67 per cent;

* Sunday Post, 225,331 – down 10.64 per cent;

* Mail on Sunday, 1,610,028 – down 6.67 per cent;

* Independent on Sunday, 104,850 – down 10.6 per cent;

* Observer, 224,576 – down 3.43 per cent;

* Sunday Telegraph, 432,082 – down 1.01 per cent; and

* Sunday Times, 825,587 – down 7.35 per cent.

Source: Audit Bureau of Circulation, March 7 2014.