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# Readership At UK Music Magazines Tumbles
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/readership-at-u/
- Published: 2008-09-01T05:18:00.000Z
- Updated: 2008-09-01T05:18:00.000Z
- Description: Circulation reporting firm ABC had some grim news for UK music magazines: readers are getting their music news elsewhere. Q lost 18,000 readers over the last 6 months, Uncut is. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2008/09/readership-at-u.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:06

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Circulation reporting firm ABC [had](http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/14/abcs.pressandpublishing5?ref=hypebot.com) some [grim news](http://dezji.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/uk-music-magazine-circulation-figures-2/?ref=hypebot.com) for UK music magazines: readers are getting their music news elsewhere. Q lost 18,000 readers over the last 6 months, Uncut is down 4,000, NME lost 8000 or a drop of 1/8th and and Kerrang! is down 20% or 17,000 readers. Free music magazine The Fly produced by the Barfly chain was up 2000+.  
  
**January – June 2008 Circulation** (prior 6 months)

- **Classic Rock** 66,632 (67,399)
- **Kerrang!** 60,294 (76,937)
- **Metal Hammer** 48,540 (45,809)
- **Mixmag** 34,073 (35,817)
- **Mojo** 106,367 (106,218 )
- **NME** 56,284 (64,033)
- **Q** 113,174 (131,330)
- **Rock Sound** 22,527 (23,021)
- **Terrorizer** no figures (14,952)
- **The Fly** 105,212 (103,051)
- **Uncut** 86,925 (91,028 )
- **Word** 33,775 (33,217)