According to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABCs) figures, the Mail On Sunday was one of only two Sunday titles to post an increase in October rising from 1,969,990 copies to 2,037,232.
The other was the Sunday Mirror, which rose 0.64% from 1,126,053 copies to 1,333,256.
However, The Mail on Sunday suffered a 3.73% year-on-year decline, though this was less precipitous than many of its rivals.
Its main rival in the middle market Sunday market, the Sunday Express, fell 1.63% during October from 560,273 to 551,159 copies, with a double digit 10.24% year-on-year deficit to combat.
The UK's biggest selling Sunday newspaper The News Of The World dropped 4.62% from 2,948,328 copies to 2,812,005 copies during the period, with an 8.24% year-on-year decline.
The Daily Star Sunday posted a loss of 6.41% dropping from 371,457 copies to 347,642, a 4.67% decline year on year.
Trinity Mirror's The People also dropped by 4.49% from 532,420 copies to 508,496 copies.
In the broadsheet market The Observer dropped 3.7% from 325,502 copies to 313,466, while The Sunday Times fell 3.07% from 1,091,869 copies to 1,058,333.
The independent On Sunday marginally fell 0.52% in October from 155,174 copies to 154,367, but had a 1.55% year-on-year decrease, while The Sunday Telegraph dropped 0.29% month on month, from 507,860 copies to 506,391 copies, set against a 13.95% year-on-year decline in sales.
North of the border, Scotland on Sunday declined 4.15% during October from 55,949 copies to 53,262, but posted a 9.58% year-on-year decline, while rival the Sunday Herald dropped 1.23% during the month from 42,817 copies to 42,289.
The Sunday Post declined by 0.79% from 323,183 copies to 320,638 copies.
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