The following webpages contain a list of the published titles on this website grouped by year. Within each year, the titles are rank-ordered high-to-low on average monthly print circulation.
We extracted the print circulation data submitted by publishers to periodical compendia including N.W. Ayer & Sons Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals, Gale Research's Directory of Publications, and Oxbridge Communication's The Standard Periodical Directory.
Each publisher provides net paid circulation data in their annual submittal. It is the six month average of printed magazine volumes after deducting left-over, unsold, returned, sample, exchange or advertiser copies. Note: Not all publishers submitted data for every year. Only those titles with non-zero print data are rank-ordered. In the late 1980s, we began including the name of those titles with zero data.
Net paid circulation numbers are sourced from audited and unaudited publisher results and from Post Office data. Unaudited publisher submittals are prone to error, manipulation or exaggeration. Some publishers used "plug" numbers or ballpark estimates when they did not have actual data. They may have "juiced" the numbers when actual results were lower than what they expected. This is sometimes obvious when the same net paid circulation number is submitted over multiple years, or when the stated circulation is evenly matched to a competitor's print volume.
Printed Titles by Decade