THE Scottish Sun has slightly extended a record-breaking sales gap over its rival, the Daily Record.
Say the August ABCs, the gap – as measured by Average Net Circulation – between the Scottish Sun and its nearest rival, the Daily Record, was 53,818. In July, it was 53,124; in June, it was 50,493; and in May, it was 45,208.
In July, the Scottish Sun’s average daily sale was 368,097 (compared to 361,578 in July), as opposed to the Daily Record’s 314,279 (compared to 308,454 in July).
Two months ago, the Scottish Sun had celebrated its biggest-ever average sales lead over the Daily Record, insodoing creating – for the first time since it overtook the Record to become Scotland’s biggest-selling daily newspaper – a 50,000-plus divide between the two titles.
Meanwhile, the average for the country’s biggest-selling newspaper, the Sunday Mail, was 389,475. In July, it was 376,905; in June, it was 377,225; and in May, it was 388,252.
Average Net Circulation figures include free give-aways.
Reflecting when people go on holiday, there was an across-the-board increase in newspaper sales in Scotland, between July and last month – with Scotland on Sunday among those enjoying the biggest leap in circulation.
The other figures, at a glance, are:
Scottish News of the World 315,534 (compared to 310,589 for July), Sunday Post 241,075 (compared to 237,935), Scottish Daily Mail 118,110 (115,841), Scottish Mail on Sunday 98,115 (98,178), Scottish Daily Star 90,501 (90,317), Scottish Daily Express 72,179 (70,917), Sunday Times Scotland 70,349 (65,846), The Herald 57,932 (55,707), Scotland on Sunday 62,149 (53,752), The Scotsman 49,676 (45,080), Scottish Sunday Express 41,457 (40,329), Sunday Herald 43,877 (40,312), Scottish Daily Star – Sunday 29,918 (29,851), The Times 29,100 (26,576), Scottish Daily Mirror 28,082 (27,581), Daily Telegraph 25,497 (24,233), Scottish Sunday Mirror 24,418 (23,627), Sunday Telegraph 21,220 (19,980), The Observer 21,614 (20,707), People 17,007 (16,619), The Guardian 16,593 (15,315), The Independent 7,677 (7,677), Independent on Sunday 6,879 ( 6,579), and Financial Times 4,332 (4,220).
