The free daily Metro was by far the hardest hit as commuters disappeared from train stations and other key locations almost overnight. These charts show UK national newspaper circulation since the first Covid-19 national lockdown, announced on 23 March 2020. The last ABC figures we have for these titles are as follows: The Guardian and Observer joined them in September 2021. The above figures do not include the Sun, Times and Telegraph titles which have all chosen to keep their ABC circulations private since the start of 2020. The column for bulks refers to copies which are circulated for free at venues such as airports and hotels. National newsbrand circulations in October 2021 (ABC) with monthly and yearly changes – this page will be updated monthly: How to Stage Successful Hybrid Events: Read MyOnvent’s 12-page guide packed with data, insight and useful advice (promoted whitepaper) Scroll down or click here for new graphs charting the ups and downs of the UK national press in the past 20 years – with a spotlight on how Covid-19 affected circulations. The Daily Star Sunday was down 18% to 118,260. The biggest year-on-year decline was once again at The Sunday People, which fell by 19% to 101,597. Both the daily and Sunday editions saw a 9% year-on-year decline. The Saturday edition of the Daily Mail remains the most-read newspaper with a weekly circulation of 1.47m. Its free rival in London, the Evening Standard, is down 10% compared to last year on 457,542. Meanwhile Metro has settled its free distribution on 1.05m which is up 35% compared to October 2020 when some workers had begun to return to work but at a slower pace than expected. (The i, which is up since January, is the only other national to put out bulks). It is the FT’s highest circulation since the first three weeks of March 2020, when it was on 146,373, while the trend at most paid-for newspapers has been decline throughout 2021. The FT also reports sales in other countries of 57,970 within its total. The FT’s newsstand sales have decreased by 29% from 20,357 to 14,490 in a year although paid subscriptions grew 191% from 3,697 to 10,764.
AugABCs: Guardian sales split 50/50 newsstand vs subscriptions, Daily Mail Saturday still dominates
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