Music Magazine Sector

This information and figures I got from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/11/mojo-q-nme-kerrang-abcs 

"Recently in February last year Mojo overtook Q as the UK's top-selling music magazine. Mojo is published by Bauer, Mojo is a classic rock magazine and last February in 2010 the magazine had an average monthly circulation of 98,484 in the second half of last year, down 2% year on year but up 0.8% on the previous six months. Where as Q dropped 8% year on year."

This clearly shows that overall the two top music magazine sellers in February 2010 their figure and selling percentages have dropped year on year, quite dramatically. I think this is due to the reason that everything included in a music magazine, like gossip or gigs can all be found on the internet for free. 

In August 2010 IPC Media and their magazine NME sales also went down quite dramatically, 17.3% in the first half of 2010. The music magazine used to have a weekly circulation of 33,875. However IPC Media as a company their total figures went down 3.3% to 5,738,111.Here are some music magazine percentages showing the year-on year change. I got these figures from here... http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=45844&c=1

The green shows if there was a percentage increase in the sales. Red shows if there was a percentage decrease in sales and blue shows no increase or decrease in sales. the figures show their magazine sales numbers.

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%)