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August 18, 2011updated 12 Sep 2012 4:27pm

Mag ABCs: Top 100 UK mags by paid-for sales

By Press Gazette

There was little change at the top of the league table for the UK's biggest selling magazines in the first half of this year with Bauer's TV Choice still the UK's most popular title.

Total paid-for sales of the top 100 titles fell three per cent year on year to 22,785,517

Reader's Digest was one of the biggest fallers, dropping 20.9 per cent to 288,407 paid-for sales as it bolstered its headline circulation of 440,383 with an increasing reliance on free copies.

  • TV Choice : 1,354,761 ; 3.5%
  • What's on TV : 1,271,675 ; 5.4%
  • Radio Times : 892,997 ; -4.9%
  • Take a Break : 797,519 ; -6.0%
  • Saga Magazine : 612,156 ; -1.6%
  • New! : 512,216 ; -10.7%
  • Glamour : 489,461 ; 1.7%
  • OK! Magazine : 457,522 ; -0.4%
  • Closer : 452,243 ; -12.3%
  • Good Housekeeping : 414,358 ; 1.9%
  • Star : 402,589 ; -7.8%
  • Chat : 380,653 ; -9.3%
  • Woman & Home : 352,190 ; 0.1%
  • Slimming World Magazine : 335,595 ; 14.7%
  • Cosmopolitan : 324,753 ; -3.9%
  • That's Life : 319,228 ; -5.9%
  • Heat : 312,063 ; -21.8%
  • Woman's Weekly : 308,878 ; 0.6%
  • Reveal : 305,843 ; -6.4%
  • Now : 300,862 ; -8.8%
  • National Geographic Magazine : 297,978 ; -1.0%
  • HELLO! : 296,318 ; 26.8%
  • TV Times : 289,139 ; -0.2%
  • Reader's Digest : 288,407 ; -20.9%
  • Look : 285,884 ; -7.6%
  • Woman : 282,333 ; -9.9%
  • BBC Good Food : 279,017 ; -3.6%
  • Best : 276,424 ; -7.0%
  • Prima : 275,954 ; -2.2%
  • Yours : 264,036 ; -4.1%
  • BBC Gardeners' World : 255,178 ; 3.3%
  • Pick Me Up : 252,885 ; -18.5%
  • Sainsbury's Magazine : 250,716 ; -13.4%
  • Peoples Friend : 241,202 ; -8.3%
  • Woman's Own : 241,100 ; -9.9%
  • Bella : 237,840 ; -2.8%
  • Candis : 224,139 ; -8.5%
  • Marie Claire : 215,407 ; -9.0%
  • Red : 213,079 ; -0.9%
  • Love It! : 210,682 ; -6.0%
  • Grazia : 206,764 ; -3.9%
  • Real People : 203,058 ; -7.0%
  • Weightwatchers Magazine : 199,493 ; -1.8%
  • Private Eye : 194,321 ; -0.8%
  • Ideal Home : 191,069 ; -0.7%
  • Men's Health : 182,557 ; -9.9%
  • TV & Satellite Week : 176,508 ; -4.0%
  • Company : 176,357 ; -16.8%
  • Full House : 167,072 ; -4.4%
  • Country Living : 167,041 ; -3.2%
  • More! : 165,084 ; -5.4%
  • Inside Soap : 164,361 ; -5.9%
  • TV Easy : 162,137 ; -2.8%
  • The Economist – United Kingdom Edition : 160,986 ; 6.4%
  • Healthy : 160,064 ; 3.5%
  • The Week : 153,089 ; 3.2%
  • Empire : 151,056 ; -4.3%
  • Vogue : 149,888 ; -2.3%
  • Elle (U.K.) : 147,770 ; 0.2%
  • BBC Top Gear Magazine : 147,686 ; -6.2%
  • Easy Living : 145,228 ; -6.2%
  • House Beautiful : 136,848 ; -6.0%
  • BM : 136,388 ; N/A
  • Your Home : 128,020 ; 2.1%
  • Essentials : 125,612 ; 10.0%
  • Instyle UK : 125,416 ; -4.6%
  • My Weekly : 119,790 ; -7.5%
  • FHM : 117,908 ; -24.1%
  • Total TV Guide : 117,416 ; 7.7%
  • Moshi Monsters Magazine : 113,183 ; N/A
  • Nuts : 107,532 ; -23.9%
  • Soaplife : 100,209 ; 1.5%
  • Top of the Pops : 97,450 ; -5.6%
  • Homes & Gardens : 95,090 ; -0.6%
  • 25 Beautiful Homes : 94,059 ; -3.9%
  • All About Soap : 90,396 ; -4.9%
  • Psychologies Magazine : 88,832 ; -6.7%
  • delicious : 84,396 ; -10.0%
  • Zest : 83,490 ; -15.0%
  • Rosemary Conley Diet & Fitness Magazine : 80,153 ; -12.1%
  • What Car? : 80,072 ; -2.7%
  • New Scientist – Worldwide Sales Excluding Australasia & US/Canada : 77,625 ; -8.5%
  • GQ : 76,049 ; -6.7%
  • Country Homes and Interiors : 75,477 ; 6.8%
  • Fun to Learn – Peppa Pig : 75,426 ; 4.4%
  • Living etc : 73,613 ; -2.1%
  • Olive : 72,169 ; -5.3%
  • Fun to Learn – Friends : 71,670 ; -1.6%
  • Ben 10 : 71,222 ; -3.8%
  • House & Garden : 70,630 ; -7.1%
  • Bliss : 70,216 ; -13.6%
  • Irish Farmers Journal : 66,600 ; 0.9%
  • Stuff : 65,986 ; -11.60%
  • National Enquirer – UK Edition : 65,658 ; -8.20%
  • Girl Talk : 64,905 ; -4.00%
  • The Simpsons Comics : 64,882 ; -20.70%
  • Four Four Two : 64,865 ; -14.60%
  • GoodHomes : 63,540 ; 9.90%
  • Disney's Princess : 63,023 ; -6.30%
  • Q : 62,832 ; -10.40%

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