National Newspaper ABC Summary – February 1999 (Subscribers)
The latest round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC this afternoon, shows that the Financial Times is still performing stronger than the rest of the market year on year. Between the six months to February this year and the same period last year, the FT gained 39,689 (11.8%) in sales. Most other papers report a decline in circulation.
The one exception to this is the Mirror Group’s Racing Post which has taken almost all of the now-abandoned Sport Life‘s sales (see Racing Post Captures Sporting Life’s Sales, Mirror Claims). Year on year the paper is up by a massive 51.9% to 71,000.
The two Mail titles are the only other papers to report any growth worth mentioning in this period. The Sunday Express and the News Of The World both suffered substantial losses in sales.
| National Newspaper Sep ’98 – Feb ’99 ABC YoY Comparisons | ||||
| Title | Sep 97-Feb 98 | Sep 98-Feb 99 | Actual Change | % Change |
| Daily Mail | 2,259,563 | 2,355,596 | 96,033 | 4.3 |
| Daily Record | 682,419 | 679,211 | -3,208 | -0.5 |
| Daily Star | 692,471 | 637,173 | -55,298 | -8.0 |
| Daily Telegraph | 1,094,110 | 1,046,888 | -47,222 | -4.3 |
| Express | 1,196,127 | 1,105,594 | -90,533 | -7.6 |
| Financial Times | 336,946 | 376,635 | 39,689 | 11.8 |
| Guardian | 407,428 | 396,433 | -10,995 | -2.7 |
| Independent | 248,304 | 220,911 | -27,393 | -11.0 |
| Independent On Sunday | 282,925 | 253,527 | -29,398 | -10.4 |
| Mail On Sunday | 2,234,069 | 2,340,839 | 106,770 | 4.8 |
| Mirror | 2,313,238 | 2,310,094 | -3,144 | -0.1 |
| News Of The World | 4,450,526 | 4,244,920 | -205,606 | -4.6 |
| Observer | 436,759 | 405,362 | -31,397 | -7.2 |
| Racing Post | 46,766 | 71,042 | 24,276 | 51.9 |
| Scotland On Sunday | n/a | 126,595 | n/a | n/a |
| Scotsman | n/a | 79,786 | n/a | n/a |
| Sun | 3,744,433 | 3,680,980 | -63,453 | -1.7 |
| Sunday Express | 1,139,591 | 1,014,170 | -125,421 | -11.0 |
| Sunday Mirror | 2,222,591 | 1,994,983 | -227,608 | -10.2 |
| Sunday People | 1,841,981 | 1,699,450 | -142,531 | -7.7 |
| Sunday Telegraph | 880,740 | 822,014 | -58,726 | -6.7 |
| Sunday Times | 1,370,333 | 1,373,529 | 3,196 | 0.2 |
| Times | 812,646 | 753,701 | -58,945 | -7.3 |
| Total | 28,693,966 | 27,989,433 | -910,914 | -2.9 |
A full ABC Round-Up, by market, will appear on Newsline next week. Subscribers can access the Press database by selecting “Press” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.