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Newspaper print circulations fell across the board in February, new ABC figures show.
The Mirror titles continue to record the biggest year-on-year circulation declines, with the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People posting double-digit drops.
Free titles the Metro and London Evening Standard recorded the smallest year-on-year declines, falling by three per cent each.
National newsbrand circulations for February (source: ABC):
| Publication | Total circulation Feb 2019 |
Year-on-year % change | UK & ROI circulation Feb 2019 |
Bulks |
| Metro FREE | 1,426,261 | -3% | ||
| The Sun | 1,362,205 | -7% | 1,353,483 | 108,403 |
| Daily Mail | 1,186,594 | -8% | 1,162,209 | |
| The Sun on Sunday | 1,153,690 | -7% | 1,143,734 | 108,280 |
| The Mail on Sunday | 1,016,438 | -6% | 995,549 | |
| London Evening Standard FREE | 859,943 | -3% | ||
| The Sunday Times | 707,917 | -5% | 687,283 | 78,208 |
| Daily Mirror | 493,614 | -13% | 486,458 | |
| Sunday Mirror | 411,227 | -16% | 404,640 | |
| The Times | 405,558 | -6% | 397,661 | 79,660 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 345,618 | -8% | 337,549 | |
| Daily Star | 322,885 | -18% | 321,345 | |
| Daily Express | 315,142 | -12% | 310,653 | |
| Sunday Express | 272,259 | -13% | 268,217 | |
| The Sunday Telegraph | 271,872 | -9% | 266,304 | |
| i | 232,084 | -9% | 232,084 | 50,832 |
| Daily Star – Sunday | 199,091 | -16% | 197,622 | |
| Financial Times | 171,459 | -4% | 63,562 | 30,639 |
| The Observer | 161,984 | -9% | 161,984 | |
| Sunday People | 156,696 | -20% | 156,238 | |
| The Guardian | 133,497 | -11% | 133,497 | |
| Sunday Mail | 121,478 | -13% | 121,476 | |
| Daily Record | 117,943 | -11% | 117,939 | |
| Sunday Post | 104,419 | -15% | 104,308 | 538 |
| City AM FREE | 85,877 | -6% |
Picture: Reuters/Luke MacGregor
Commissioning Editor - Energy, Transport & Defence, Progressive Media International
Managing Editor, New Statesman Media Group
If the sunday people keeps dropping at that rate it will be gone be summer 2020 same applies to sunday post, daily star sunday and sunday mail. The sunday titles are in their last few years of life. I can see daily star going to 6 days a week.
Reach will probably have to look at merging titles. A Sunday Mail &mirror in Scotland with the Sunday Mirror serving the rest of the UK and a UK wide Star Sunday People.