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The jump put Kerrang! comfortably ahead of IPC's rival weekly NME, which dropped by 4.9% to 73,008 year-on-year.

Q fell by 11.4% between July and December to 140,282, and was also down 16.8% year-on-year, but has retained its status as having the highest circulation of any UK music monthly, despite dropping in circulation by around 20,000 copies since 2005.

In the weekly music market, Kerrang! capitalised on the UK emo rock boom by rising a further 6.5% between July and December to 85,377, marking a near 20,000 rise in circulation since 2005.

Conor McNicholas' NME was down 1.6% between July and December to 74,206, and has slid by 4.9% year-on-year, but stays in second place in the weekly music magazine sector.

In the film sector, Emap's Empire edged up 0.1% to 175,854, but was down by 7.6% year-on-year. Future's rival title Total Film lost further ground, by dropping 5.5% to 86,036 for the six-month period, and was also down 5.1% year-on-year.

Uncut, which revamped its website in October last year, climbed by 5.5% for the six month period to 93,678, but was down 14.9% year-on-year to 88,756. The IPC title dropped by 19.4% in the January to June period last year.

Emap's Mojo slipped by 6.2% to 114,183 for the six-month period, and was also down 5.3% year-on-year. Future title Classic Rock recorded a substantial rise in the mature music magazine sector, climbing 11.9% to 62,699, topping an impressive 25.3% year-on-year rise.

Heavy rock magazine, Future Publishing's Metal Hammer, was also up by 8% to 48,977 between July and December, rising 11.2% year-on-year, but Development Hell's dance title MixMag was down 6.6% for the same period to 39,017, and has slipped year-on-year by 7.6%.

In the classical music sector, BBC Music Magazine stayed comfortably ahead of its rivals on 47,091, despite dropping 8.2% year-on-year from 51,272. Haymarket title Classic FM - The Magazine stayed in second place, but was down 6.1% year-on-year to 44,279, and Gramophone also dropped by 7.9% to 43,523 during the same period. None of the classic music magazines recorded their circulations for the January to June period.

Kerrang!, which celebrated its silver jubilee last year, said its success over the past two years has been partly attributable to breakthrough US emo acts Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance, which have proved an unprecedented success with youth music fans in the UK.

Kerrang! Radio also performed well in the recent Rajar figures, garnering 1.4m listeners a week for quarter four last year.