Print circulation figures for the Mirror, Express and Star newspapers will no longer be made public.
PublisherReachhas decided to keep its national newspaperABCprint sales numbers private.
This means they will be available only to ad buyers who agree to keep the data confidential.
Reach follows in the Sun and Times publisher News UK, Telegraph Media Group and The Guardian, which have all kept their print figures private for more than four years.
The changes at Reach cover the following titles: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star, Daily Star Sunday, and Scottish titles Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
Their final published figures were as follows:
Reach’s Sunday tabloids, and the Sunday People in particular, hadfrequently led the biggest year-on-year circulation declines for a long time.
These figures come at the end of a downward print trend that has seen the Daily Mirror down 93% since 2000:
This means the only national newspapers that willcontinue to publish their print circulation figuresare DMGT-owned Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The i Paper and Metro, plus the Financial Times and DC Thomson’s Scottish weekly Sunday Post. Press Gazette’s monthly update has also historically included the free business newspaper City AM, although it is not distributed nationwide.
The average print circulation figures for these newspapers in January 2026 were as follows (Metro has not yet published its January figure but will be added when it is available):
Source: Press Gazette
