Music Mags continue downturn in ABCs

The latest ABC magazine circulation figures reveal that printed music publications continue to drastically fall in sales and circulation, with the entire sector dropping by almost 5%.

NME, published by IPC media dropped 17.3% year on year to 33,000 weekly sales for June 2010. Showing a similar trend, Bauer Media’s monthly Q magazine dropped 10.7% to a circulation of 89, 450. Other titles such as Uncut, Mojo and Metal Hammer also experienced a significant drop in sales.

Despite what is evidently a downward trend across the traditional music media sector, metal title Kerrang! experienced a 1.8% increase in sales and legacy magazine Classic Rock sustained its readership with no change in either direction.