Newspaper sales

National titles suffer sharp falls in Scots sales

Daily Business reporter | July 9, 2015

Circulations of national newspapers in Scotland continued to decline in the last six months, despite interest generated by the independence referendum and General Election campaign.

Newspaper	Scottish circulation, September 2014	Scottish circulation, May 2015	Scottish Sep/May % change
The Sun	238,823	218,708	-8.4
The Sun on Sunday	172,652	155,469	-10.0
Sunday Express	26,951	24,989	-7.3
Daily Star	41,519	37,597	-9.4
Daily Record	202,831	186,978	-7.8
Sunday Mail	227,160	205,046	-9.7
Mail on Sunday	81,237	80,416	-1.0
The Times	19,736	19,561	-0.9
The Sunday Telegraph	15,667	15,010	-4.2
The Sunday Times	45,771	44,460	-2.9
Daily Star Sunday	22,723	19,422	-14.5
Daily Mail	94,028	91,288	-2.9
Sunday Mirror	17,398	15,174	-12.8
Daily Express	47,570	43,230	-9.1
The Observer	13,706	13,593	-0.8
The Daily Telegraph	18,192	17,013	-6.5
Sunday People	9,274	7,673	-17.3
The Independent on Sunday	5,548	5,230	-5.7
The Guardian	10,189	9,501	-6.8
i	18,870	17,343	-8.1
The Independent	3,001	2,657	-11.5
Financial Times	2,425	2,149	-11.4
Daily Mirror	17,529	14,202	-19.0
Total	1,352,800	1,246,709	-7.8