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The Sun has remained the UK’s best-selling newspaper despite a drop in circulation of 13 per cent year-on-year.
It sold 1.2m copies in November, according to the latest ABC figures. The free Metro distributed 1.4m copies.
All paid-for newspapers continued to see their sales fall year-on-year, with the smallest drop (three per cent) at the Observer.
National newspaper circulations for November 2019 (ABC):
| Publication | Total average circ. Nov 2019 | Year-on-year % change | Bulks |
| Metro FREE | 1,421,309 | -2% | |
| The Sun | 1,217,029 | -13% | 66,859 |
| Daily Mail | 1,133,268 | -7% | |
| The Sun on Sunday | 1,032,959 | -13% | 66,861 |
| The Mail on Sunday | 966,299 | -6% | |
| Evening Standard FREE | 816,378 | -5% | |
| The Sunday Times | 653,340 | -10% | 50,937 |
| Daily Mirror | 454,685 | -12% | |
| Sunday Mirror | 371,540 | -14% | |
| The Times | 364,936 | -12% | 53,808 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 309,167 | -14% | |
| Daily Express | 297,920 | -8% | 11 |
| Daily Star | 288,819 | -15% | 63 |
| Sunday Express | 258,856 | -8% | 15 |
| The Sunday Telegraph | 246,910 | -13% | |
| i | 220,229 | -8% | 47,565 |
| Daily Star – Sunday | 171,713 | -17% | |
| Financial Times | 163,324 | -8% | 30,055 |
| The Observer | 160,363 | -3% | |
| Sunday People | 143,517 | -15% | |
| The Guardian | 129,053 | -6% | |
| Sunday Mail | 107,415 | -14% | |
| Daily Record | 106,479 | -12% | |
| Sunday Post | 89,614 | -18% | 538 |
| City AM FREE | 85,760 | 0% |
Picture: Reuters/Peter Nicholls
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Director, Ethical Journalism Network
Looking at the sales figures of all the newspapers and the vast majority are right wing. No wonder the country is so full of hatred, discourse and racism. Why do people find it so hard to understand the media in the UK and indeed the world is the cause of all the troubles and disharmony. I think it’s so obvious
not many selling over a million a day. The national paper industry is dying on its feet.
which will be the next to go online only? Guardian?