ABC Results Jul-Dec 2005:Music Magazines Hit Right Note For Readers
The music magazine market enjoyed a good performance in the latest set of ABC’s, with just two publications dragging the sector down during July to December.
Emap’s flagship music magazine, Q retained its crown as the market leader, pushing its circulation up by 3.7% year on year, commanding a circulation of 168,547.
Mojo continued to do well for Emap, building on increases seen in the last set of ABCs, with a year on year increase of 7.8%. The rock magazine now has a circulation of 120,530.
Kerrang! saw the largest % increase, up by 23.2% year on year, adding 14,321 to bring its circulation up 76,165.
Dance magazine, Mixmag, once again slipped, losing almost 4,000 in circulation with a year on year drop of 8.5% bringing the publications circulation down to 42,234.
Future Publishing’s rock offerings, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer both had successful ABC results, increasing year on year circulation by 19% and 15%, respectively.
IPC Ignite’s NME also managed to gain circulation, enjoying a healthy year on year rise of 9.7%, adding 6,775 to its circulation, whilst the publishers other offering in this sector Uncut fell slightly to 110, 052.
Elsewhere, Rock Sound increased its circulation by 4.6% year on year, while The Fly managed a slight rise of 0.1%.
| Music Magazines: Jul-Dec 2005 Year On Year Comparisons | |||||
| Title | Publisher | Jul-Dec 04 | Jul-Dec 05 | Actual Change | % Ch |
| Classic Rock | Future Publishing | 42,030 | 50,027 | 7,997 | 19.0 |
| The Fly | Channelfly Enterprises Ltd | 107,943 | 108,097 | 154 | 0.1 |
| Kerrang! | Emap Performance | 61,844 | 76,165 | 14,321 | 23.2 |
| Metal Hammer | Future Publishing | 38,313 | 44,047 | 5,734 | 15.0 |
| Mixmag | Emap Performance | 46,162 | 42,234 | -3,928 | -8.5 |
| Mojo | Emap Performance | 111,815 | 120,530 | 8,715 | 7.8 |
| NME | IPC Ignite | 70,017 | 76,792 | 6,775 | 9.7 |
| Q | Emap Performance | 162,574 | 168,547 | 5,973 | 3.7 |
| Rock Sound | IXO Publishing | 22,014 | 23,027 | 1,013 | 4.6 |
| Uncut | IPC Ignite | 114,034 | 110,052 | -3,982 | -3.5 |
The figures listed in NewsLine’s ABC reports are those reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) as at Thursday 16 February 2006. Late submissions and changes may be made after this date, and will thereafter be amended in MediaTel’s Press database.
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