Two of Trinity Mirror’s leading Sunday titles increased their combined print and digital circulation during May according to the latest ABC figures.
Liverpool’s Sunday Echo saw its sales rise by 12.1pc during May to stand at 22,478 while the Newcastle-based Sunday Sun increased circulation by 2.1pc to 29,626 – its second successive month-on-month rise.
However of the group’s daily titles, all saw sales fall during the month with the exception of the Manchester Evening News, up 0.6pc.
The print-only figures, covering the year to April, show the Sunday Echo was the only title to put on sales year-on-year, up 2.6pc from April 2014.
Meanwhile print sales of the Birmingham Mail were down 27.3pc year-on-year, while the MEN showed a drop of 23.1pc.
The full figures can be seen in the tables below.
| Table 1: Print and Digital Circulation change month-on-month (May) | ||
| Title | Print & Digital Sales | Monthly change |
| Birmingham Mail | 26,936 | -5.2pc |
| South Wales Echo | 18,686 | -1.5pc |
| Coventry Telegraph | 20,851 | -1.1pc |
| Daily Post (Wales) | 24,799 | -1.3pc |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 14,099 | -0.5pc |
| Liverpool Echo | 59,013 | -3.1pc |
| Liverpool Sunday Echo | 22,478 | 12.1pc |
| Manchester Evening News | 56,505 | 0.6pc |
| Newcastle Chronicle | 31,728 | -4.0pc |
| Sunday Sun | 29,626 | 2.1pc |
| Sunday Mercury | 22,106 | -4.1pc |
| Teesside Gazette | 25,386 | -1.2pc |
| The Journal | 15,422 | -2.1pc |
| The Western Mail | 18,424 | -0.9pc |
| Wales on Sunday | 13,432 | -8.3pc |
| Table 2: Print circulation change year-on-year (April) | ||
| Title | Y-on-Y change | |
| Birmingham Mail | 28,417 | -27.3pc |
| South Wales Echo | 18,803 | -17.6pc |
| Coventry Telegraph | 20,942 | -9.9pc |
| Daily Post (Wales) | 24,827 | -9.8pc |
| Huddersfield Daily Examiner | 13,985 | -11.4pc |
| Liverpool Echo | 60,344 | -9.2pc |
| Liverpool Sunday Echo | 20,053 | 2.6pc |
| Manchester Evening News | 55,929 | -23.1pc |
| Newcastle Chronicle | 32,860 | -15.6pc |
| Sunday Sun | 29,004 | -8.5pc |
| Sunday Mercury | 23,051 | -17.5pc |
| Teesside Gazette | 25,535 | -9.8pc |
| The Journal | 15,748 | -13.0pc |
| The Western Mail | 18,278 | -17.9pc |
| Wales on Sunday | 14,651 | -17.8pc |
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The Birmingham Mail is an absolute car crash.
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Any news on the sales picture at the Western Morning News on Sunday? *waits for tumbleweed*
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How can print + digital total be greater than print circulation alone?
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Streatham1, I think you mean the opposite way around? l have questioned this before but had no answer. Lazy (and obviously inaccurate) journalism! The figures are generally so dire anyway that no one cares to make a correction I assume.
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