The first UK national newspaper circulation figures for 2020 show continued print decline across the industry.
No national newspapers recorded year-on-year circulation growth in January, new ABC figures show. Only free title the Metro held off a decline.
The Daily Star Sunday saw the biggest circulation drop for the period, falling by a fifth year-on-year to 162,345 copies.
Broadsheets the Times and the Financial Times both reported a drop in sales of 12 per cent year-on-year.
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The figures no longer include the Telegraph titles, which pulled out of circulation auditing last month.
UK national newspaper circulation figures for January 2020 (source: ABC)
| Publication | ABC Total January 2020 | Year-on-year % change | Bulks |
| Metro FREE | 1,426,535 | 0% | |
| The Sun | 1,250,634 | -11% | 66,859 |
| Daily Mail | 1,169,241 | -6% | |
| The Sun on Sunday | 1,042,193 | -12% | 66,861 |
| The Mail on Sunday | 967,043 | -6% | |
| Evening Standard FREE | 798,198 | -8% | |
| The Sunday Times | 645,108 | -9% | 50,065 |
| Daily Mirror | 451,466 | -11% | |
| The Times | 368,929 | -12% | 52,805 |
| Sunday Mirror | 367,244 | -15% | |
| Daily Express | 296,079 | -8% | 11 |
| Daily Star | 277,237 | -16% | |
| Sunday Express | 252,733 | -10% | 15 |
| i | 217,182 | -7% | 47,506 |
| Daily Star – Sunday | 162,345 | -20% | |
| Financial Times | 157,982 | -12% | 27,739 |
| The Observer | 156,217 | -5% | |
| Sunday People | 139,698 | -13% | |
| The Guardian | 132,341 | -6% | |
| Sunday Mail | 105,451 | -15% | |
| Daily Record | 104,343 | -13% | |
| Sunday Post | 86,953 | -19% | 538 |
| City AM FREE | 85,521 | -1% |
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