Daily Mail takes title of UK’s most read paper from The Sun after 42-year run

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy After 42 years as the nation’s most-read newspaper, the Sun has been knocked off the top spot for circulation by the Daily Mail, according to the latest available figures. According to figures reported by industry publication Press Gazette, the daily edition of the Mail reported sales of 980,000 per day in May – a reduction of 17 per cent year on year. And while the Sun recently stopped publishing its figures, the Mail is understood to have seen evidence of its new position as the nation’s most read paper. The Mail’s editor Geordie Grieg, who took on the publication from Paul Dacre last year, said he was “humbled that our readers have backed us so magnificently and loyally by buying the paper to make us Britain’s bestselling paper.” He added: “I am immensely proud and delighted that the Daily Mail has become Britain’s biggest-selling newspaper, an historic moment in our history.”