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Average weekly sales of Radio Times dropped back under one million as overall circulation in the paid-for TV listings magazine sector slumped 4.7 per cent year on year.

The BBC Magazines title recorded a year-on-year fall of two per cent to an average circulation of 947,131, according to figures released today by the Audit Bureau of CirculatioDespite its circulation drop Radio Times maintained its place as the third biggest seller in the sector in the first half of this year.
TV Listings: Radio & TV guide sales for first half of 2010 (with percentage change year on year)
1 TV Choice ; 1,309,469 ; -2.0%
2 What's on TV ; 1,209,018 ; -5.0%

3 Radio Times ; 947,131 ; -2.0%
4 TV Times ; 290,686 ; -6.6%
5 TV & Satellite Week ; 184,134 ; 0.1%
6 Inside Soap ; 175,083 ; -3.7%
7 TV Easy ; 166,781 ; -17.3%
8 TV Quick ; 113,936 ; -21.0%
9 Total TV Guide ; 109,022 ; 1.2%
10 Soaplife ; 99,434 ; -15.7%
11 All About Soap ; 95,578 ; -10.8%         
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National Magazine Company's flagship glossy, Cosmopolitan, recorded a nine per cent fall in circulation year on year in the first half of 2010 as the women's lifestyle sector benefited from double-digit growth thanks to new free magazines and resilient performances elsewhere.
Cosmopolitan's average monthly circuation fell to 401,750 over the six months to the end of June. The drop of around 40,000 copies per issue led the magazine to drop from second to sixth in the sector.
Natmag annouced last week that it intended to launch a free Cosmopolitan spin-off title later this year aimed at university students.
Overall the women's lifestyle sector grew 14.6 per cent in the first half of 2010, according to Audit Bureau of Circulation figures released today.
Women's interest: lifestyle /fashion ABC figures, first six months of 2010 (all percentages are year-on-year changes)
Glamour - 526,216 (0.0%)
John Lewis Edition - 484,040 (N/A)
ASOS.com - 449,943 (-3.7%)
Good Housekeeping - 422,496 (3.0%)
Stylist - 421,158 (N/A)
Cosmopolitan - 401,750 (-9.0%)
Woman & Home - 369,321 (5.5%)
Look - 313,358 (-0.7%)

Yours - 297,231 (-1.3%)
Prima - 289,058 (5.5%)
Marie Claire - 280,021 (-1.9%)
Candis - 254,420 (-6.5%)
Red - 230,067 (5.2%)
Grazia - 228,770 (0.0%)
Company - 217,324 (-5.6%)
Vogue - 210,561 (0.1%)                    
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TV Choice remained the top actively purchased magazine in the UK in the first half of 2010, averaging sales of just over 1.3m copies a week.
The only change in the order of the top ten paid-for titles, compared with the previous period, was monthly women’s magazine Glamour, which rose two places from tenth to eighth position after growing its sale by 1.5 per cent year on year to 481,418.
Overall, 38 out of the top 100 actively purchased mags put on sales year on year.
The biggest growers were in the celeb weeklies market, helped by some aggressive price and bundling of magazines for sale in two-for-one and three-of-one packages.
Northern and Shell title New! rose 47.5 per cent to 573,731 and sister title Star increased by 41.9 per cent to 436,471.
Hubert Burda Media’s real-life weekly Full House rose 29.8 per cent to 175,744 helped by a discounted 50p cover price.
Top 100 actively purchased magazines in the UK in the first half of 2010 (source ABC)
Figures given are total sale followed by percentage change year on year.
1 ; TV Choice ; 1,309,469 ; -2.0%
2 ; What's on TV ; 1,206,300 ; -5.0%
3 ; Radio Times ; 941,882 ; -2.3%
4 ; Take a Break ; 848,843 ; -7.1%
5 ; Saga Magazine ; 654,566 ; -2.7%
6 ; New! ; 573,731 ; 47.5%
7 ; Closer ; 517,404 ; -1.0%
8 ; Glamour ; 481,418 ; 1.5%
9 ; OK! Magazine ; 460,514 ; -16.4%
10 ; Star ; 436,471 ; 41.9%                
11 ; Chat ; 419,554 ; -0.9%
12 ; Good Housekeeping ; 406,687 ; 3.1%
13 ; Heat ; 409,081 ; -6.9%
14 ; Reader's Digest ; 402,290 ; -23.4%
15 ; Woman & Home ; 357,928 ; 5.4%
16 ; That's Life ; 339,416 ; -11.8%
17 ; Cosmopolitan ; 338,018 ; -10.3%
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IPC Media's weekly rock magazine NME suffered a year-on-year circulation slump of 17.3 per cent in the first half of 2010 as sales of music and film titles slumped.
NME had an average weekly circulation of 33,875 in the six months to the end of June, according to figures released today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Rivals to NME also suffered in a bad set of results for entertainment titles. Circulation of Bauer's Q Magazine dropped 10.7 per cent compared to the first half of 2009, taking it to an average of 89,450 per issue.
Mojo magazine, a stablemate of Q at Bauer, fell by 6.2 per cent year on year to a monthly circulation average of 91,678.NME's sister title Uncut fared slightly better but still fell with a 3.2 per cent year-on-year drop to a monthly average circulation of 74,067. Bauer's heavy metal weekly Kerrang! increased its average per-issue circulation by 1.8 per cent to 44,013.
Music magazines (percentages represent year-on-year change)
The Fly - 108,207 (0.4%)
Mojo - 91,678 (-6.2%)

Q - 89,450 (-10.7%)
RWD -78,867 (1.7%)
Uncut - 74,067 (-3.2%)
Classic Rock - 70,323 (0.0%)
Metal Hammer - 44,034 (-4.3%)
Kerrang! - 44,013 (1.8%)
New Musical Express - 33,875 (-17.3%)