Thanks to... oh I don't know... Ed for this one.
Music Week article (drawn from ABC circulation figures for UK music titles).
NME's sales have fallen by 27% year-on-year to just above 40,000 (weekly).
Kerrang!'s sales have fallen by 28% year-on-year to 43,253.
Uncut's sales have fallen by 12% to 76,526 (monthly).
Q's sales have fallen by 11.5% to just above 100,000 (monthly).
Mojo's sales have fallen by 8.1% to 97,722 (monthly).
Metal Hammer's sales have fallen by 5.2% to 46,004.
But hey, it's not all bad news! Classic Rock's sales have risen 5.5% to 70,301.
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ReplyDeletePhil West
What kind of world is it where Metal Hammer's sales fall 5.2%?
Fri at 8:25pm · Delete
Neil Davenport
IPCs decision to water down the content of MM and NME back in the mid to late 1990s helped kill off music criticism. Most of us bought MM precisely because we wanted their writers to offer up something more insightful than regurgitated press releases.
It was all over by 1997 after Gillian Anderson was put on the cover of MM, a sign of the low ... Read Morehorizons that IPC directors projected onto the yoof. Similarly, the decision to give George Lamb a slot on 6music, because the BBC thought the station's music specialism was 'too alienating', shows that New Labour populism is still a cultural deadweight.
Sat at 2:57am · Delete