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Bestsellers

The top 100 magazines in the UK


We’ve teamed up with the Retail Newsagent Bestsellers team to bring you your top 100 in magazines. Once again, its been a tough year for the magazine market with 6 of the top 10 products (ranked by circulation) down on last year but there are some encouraging results and opportunities. OK! Magazine is up 10%, Closer up a fraction at 0.1% and New! have increased circulation an impressive 35.1%. Star’s circulation rose 84%, but this was down to being bundled with OK! Mag.

Retail Newsagents’ Bestsellers issue features exclusive data that was compiled by Retail Newsagent using Newstrade figures along with detailed analysis.

Take a look at the top 10 below and then download the entire top 100, to print out and keep, here.

1. TV Choice

TV Choice

Newsstand single copy

1,302,382

Newsstand change year on year

-4.9%

Estimated RSV

£26.0m

2. What's on TV

What's on TV

Newsstand single copy

1,243,574

Newsstand change year on year

-5.5%

Estimated RSV

£30.5m

3. Take a Break

Take a Break

Newsstand single copy

891,794

Newsstand change year on year

-4.4%

Estimated RSV

£34.8m

4. Radio Times

Radio Times

Newsstand single copy

818,800

Newsstand change year on year

-6.6%

Estimated RSV

£45.0m

5. New!

New!

Newsstand single copy

587,227

Newsstand change year on year

35.1%

Estimated RSV

£25.0m

6. Closer

Closer

Newsstand single copy

527,601

Newsstand change year on year

0.1%

Estimated RSV

£34.3m

7. OK! Magazine

OK! Magazine

Newsstand single copy

522,685

Newsstand change year on year

10.0%

Estimated RSV

£70.7m

8. Star

Star

Newsstand single copy

477,862

Newsstand change year on year

84.0%

Estimated RSV

£21.5m

9. Chat

Chat

Newsstand single copy

424,787

Newsstand change year on year

-6.4%

Estimated RSV

£17.0m

10. Heat

Heat

Newsstand single copy

422,881

Newsstand change year on year

-2.6%

Estimated RSV

£34.9m

Download the entire top 100, to print out and keep here.

Comments (2)

 

  1. Steve says:

    It is excellent to see this here. I will be looking at how we can use top seller information and change our range by removing unprofitable titles.

    Steve

  2. My magazines needed a change, thank you

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