Canadian newsstand box scores released

Continuing a great service to the Canadian industry, Coast to Coast Newsstand Services has published its box score for the sales of Canadian and U.S. titles on Canadian newsstands, this time for 2007. Among the interesting developments were not only who was up and who down, but that the figures tend to shine a very different light on the recent Audit Bureau of Circulations data which gave a rather gloomy picture of the single copy business. Part of the reason was a change in ABC's methodology, removing "public place" and bulk copies from its counts.

Among notable results in CTC's Canadian Newsstand Boxscore:

• Hello! magazine has taken the number one spot for newsstand sales among Canadian magazines and the number 12 spot over all. In 2007 it sold 1,747,987 copies for retail sales of $6.5 million. That's a jump of 313% in unit sales and 210% in dollars.
• None of the top 10 and only three of the top 20 newsstand sellers are Canadian. When enquiring minds want to know why it's so hard for Canadian magazines to do well on their own newsstands, it's because we're crowded out by the likes of People (number one with a stagering 5.7 million units and $28 million in sales).
  
• Canadian Living, the number two Canadian title is off 4.4% in units from last year, with just over $5 million in sales
• Canadian House & Home was also off 4.3% in unit sales, with 2007 sales of $4.5 million
• Style at Home was off 12.3% in unit sales and had sales of $3.2 million
• Chatelaine was off 4.5% in unit sales with sales of $2.7 million
• Maclean's was up 14.3% in unit sales, with sales of $2.4 million
• Reader's Digest was off 8.1% in unit sales, with sales of $2.2 million
• The Hockey News was off 10.6% in unit sales, with sales of $1 million
• Lou Lou (English) was off 6.1% in unit sales, with sales of $862,662
• MORE magazine was up 53% in units, for sales of $827,152