The Metro is the slowest declining national newspaper in another month of industry-wide slowdown, the latest ABC figures reveal.
The free title saw a 1 per cent year-on-year drop to a circulation of 1.45m in October, keeping it ahead of the Sun, which fell by 7 per cent to 1.4m.
The Mail, Telegraph and Mirror titles have all stopped counting bulk sales.
News websites regularly audited by ABC – Mail Online, Metro, The Sun, and Reach’s Mirror, Express and Star titles – also all saw their daily average unique users drop last month.
National newspaper circulations for October 2018 (ABC):
| Publication | Total circulation (Oct 2018) | Year-on-year % change | Bulks |
| Metro FREE | 1,452,609 | -1% | |
| The Sun | 1,404,972 | -7% | 118,233 |
| Daily Mail | 1,228,002 | -12% | |
| The Sun on Sunday | 1,202,128 | -7% | 118,233 |
| The Mail on Sunday | 1,038,743 | -13% | |
| London Evening Standard FREE | 862,916 | -4% | |
| The Sunday Times | 722,886 | -4% | 83,178 |
| Daily Mirror | 533,531 | -12% | |
| Sunday Mirror | 451,736 | -13% | |
| The Times | 421,009 | -5% | 88,444 |
| The Daily Telegraph | 360,117 | -23% | |
| Daily Star | 346,545 | -15% | 225 |
| Daily Express | 327,011 | -11% | |
| Sunday Express | 284,482 | -12% | |
| The Sunday Telegraph | 283,691 | -18% | |
| i | 239,443 | -9% | 53,458 |
| Daily Star – Sunday | 213,368 | -14% | |
| Financial Times | 181,205 | -6% | 31,539 |
| Sunday People | 176,008 | -15% | |
| The Observer | 167,821 | -5% | |
| The Guardian | 135,330 | -8% | |
| Sunday Mail | 126,409 | -15% | |
| Daily Record | 121,710 | -13% | |
| Sunday Post | 110,683 | -15% | 538 |
| City AM FREE | 85,872 | -6% |
Total daily average unique browsers for October 2018 (ABC):
| Website | Total daily avg unique browsers (Oct 2018) | Year-on-year % change |
| Mail Online | 12,216,005 | -17% |
| Reach (inc. Mirror/Express/Star) | 8,665,886 | -9% |
| The Sun | 4,811,380 | -13% |
| Metro | 2,160,141 | 7% |
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