THE Daily Record is today claiming it is being read more than its rival, The Scottish Sun.
Says the paper today, according to the National Readership Survey, during the six months between July and December last year, an average 840,000 people read the Record, some 21,000 ahead of its rival.
The paper claims The Sun’s readership in Scotland fell by 50,000 between July and December last year.
Among other things, the NRS interviews adults in their own homes about their newspaper and magazine reading.
Adds the Record: “Analysts say The Sun has been hit by the arrests of several senior journalists over alleged bribery, and the phone hacking scandal at sister paper, the News of the World.
“While the under-fire Sun faces a major corruption inquiry, the family-friendly Record has been at its dynamic best.”
The Record has, for the last five years, lagged behind The Scottish Sun, in terms of sales in Scotland. The latest audited figures reveal that, in January, sales in Scotland of The Sun stood at an average 319,864, compared to 264,737 for the Record.
Yesterday, allmediascotland.com reported slightly different readership figures: concerning the UK. The Record’s reporting today concerns Scotland-only ones – which allmediascotland.com has since received.
And the 12 months figure, between January and December last year, shows The Scottish Sun leading the Record.
For the year Jan-Dec 2011, the readership figures in Scotland alone read as follows:
Sunday Mail 1,018,000
The Scottish Sun 885,000
Daily Record 849,000
The Sunday Post 633,000
Metro 296,000
Scottish Daily Mail 252,000
Press and Journal 175,000
The Courier 159,000
The Sunday Times Scotland 156,000
The Herald 151,000
Scottish Daily Express 145,000
Evening Times 144,000
Scotland on Sunday 139,000
Sunday Herald 131,000
The Scotsman 121,000
Daily Mirror 87,000
The Times 65,000
