National newspaper ABCs for December

The Audit Bureau of Circulations today published national newspaper circulation figures for the month of December 2006.

National morning popular

Daily Mirror: 1,540,917 (Down 0.56% month-on-month and down 8.22% year-on-year)
Daily Record: 407,212 (Down 0.26% month-on-month and down 7.17% year-on-year)
Daily Star: 750,374 (Down 2.45% month-on-month and down 3.74% year-on-year)
The Sun: 3,028,732 (Down 1.44% month-on-month and down 2.92% year-on-year)
Total: 5,727,235 (Down 1.25% month-on-month and down 4.82% year-on-year)

National morning mid-market

Daily Express: 773,768 (Down 0.12% month-on-month and down 3.33% year-on-year)
The Daily Mail: 2,311,057 (up 0.7% month-on-month and no change year-on-year)
Total: 3,084,825 (Up 0.49% month-on-month and down 0.85% year-on-year)

National morning quality

The Daily Telegraph: 899,493 (down 0.19% month-on-month and up 0.23% year-on-year)
Financial Times: 437,720 (Up 1.09% month-on-month and down. 0.42% year-on-year)
The Herald: 69,873 (Down 2.39% month-on-month and down 5.99% year-on-year)
The Guardian: 365,635 (Down 4.38% month-on-month and down 3.96% year-on-year)
The Independent: 238,756 (Down 5.9% month-on-month and down 4.57% year-on-year)
The Scotsman: 57,469 (Down 2.78% month-on-month and down 9.16% year-on-year)
The Times: 635,777 (Down 2.75% month-on-month and down 3.87% year-on-year)
Total: 2,704,723 (Down 1.82% month-on-month and down 2.24% year-on-year)

Total of average daily net circulation: 11,516,783 (down 0.93% month-on-month and down 3.18% year-on-year)

National morning sporting
Racing Post: 70,230  (Down 1.1% month-on-month and down 3.79% year-on-year)

National Free
Metro (national figure): 1,131,957 (Down 0.19% month-on-month and up 11.08% year-on-year)

London
Evening Standard: 263,095 (Down 3.43% month-on-month and down 18.1% year-on-year)
London Lite: 400,692 (Up 1.43% month-on-month)
Thelondonpaper: 410,898 (Down 3.43% month-on-month)
City AM: 81,774 (Down 12.76% month-on-month)


National Sunday popular

Daily Star Sunday: 354,809 (Down 2.67% month-on-month and down 7.17% year-on-year)
News of the World: 3,380,746 (Down 1.01% month-on-month and down 3.66% year-on-year)
Sunday Mail: 499,392 (Down 0.88% month-on-month and down 5.95% year-on-year)
Sunday Mirror: 1,322,720 (Down 0.79% month-on-month and down 12.59% year-on-year)
The People: 766,842 (Up 0.32% month-on-month and down 13.47% year-on-year)
Sunday Sport: 102,798 (Down 2.1% month-on-month and down 26.3% year-on-year)
Total: 6,427,307 (Down 0.91% month-on-month and down 7.67% year-on-year)

National Sunday mid-market
Sunday Express: 759,495 (Up 0.14% month-on-month and down 6.12% year-on-year)
Sunday Post: 430,334 (Down 2.9% month-on-month)
The Mail on Sunday: 2,241,752 (Down 6.16% month-on-month and up 1.17% year-on-year)
Total: 3,431,581 (Down 4.43% month-on-month and up 13.45% year-on-year)

National Sunday Quality

Independent on Sunday: 198,871 (Down 6.59% month-on-month and down 9.21% year-on-year)
The Observer: 435,852 (Down 2.73% month-on-month and up 1.27% year-on-year)
Scotland on Sunday: 68,632 (Down 5.36% month-on-month and down 4.27% year-on-year)
Sunday Herald: 52,844 (Down 8.38% month-on-month and down 12.6% year-on-year)
The Sunday Telegraph: 643,592 (Down 1.95% month-on-month and up 0.21% year-on-year)
The Sunday Times: 1,212,886 (Down 5.87% month-on-month and down 7.64% year-on-year)
Total: 2,612,677 (Down 4.51% month-on-month and down 4.55% year-on-year)

Overall total of average Sunday net circulation: 12,471,565 (Down 2.67% month-on-month and down 1.98% year-on-year)

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