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):
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| 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% |
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