The NME circulation peaked under Andy Gray (editor 1957–1972) with a figure of 306,881 for the period from January to June 1964. The first number one was " Here in My Heart" by Al Martino.ĭuring the 1960s, the paper championed the new British groups emerging at the time. The first of these was, in contrast to more recent charts, a top twelve sourced by the magazine itself from sales in regional stores around the UK. On 14 November 1952, taking its cue from the US magazine Billboard, it created the first UK Singles Chart, a list of the Top Twelve best-selling singles. It was relaunched as the New Musical Express, and was initially published in a non-glossy tabloid format on standard newsprint. The Accordion Times and Musical Express was bought by London music promoter Maurice Kinn for £1,000, just 15 minutes before it was due to be officially closed. The brand's most recent editor is Charlotte Gunn, replacing Mike Williams, who stepped down in February 2018. NME 's headquarters are in Southwark, London, England. NME was acquired in 2019 by Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies, which put all of its music publications under the NME Networks brand in December 2021, when the company was restructured. In March 2018, the publisher announced that the print edition of NME would cease publication after 66 years and become an online-only publication. UK claimed to have more than 13 million global unique users per month, including 3 million in the UK. By December 2017, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, average distribution of NME had fallen to 289,432 copies a week, although its then-publisher Time Inc. The first average circulation published in February 2016 of 307,217 copies per week was the highest in the brand's history, beating the previous best of 306,881, recorded in 1964 at the height of the Beatles' fame.
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In September 2015, the NME magazine was relaunched to be distributed nationally as a free publication. With newsstand sales falling across the UK magazine sector, the magazine's paid circulation in the first half of 2014 was 15,830.
The magazine's website NME.com was launched in 1996, and became the world's biggest standalone music site, with over sixteen million users per month. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s and 1990s, changing from newsprint in 1998. From 1972 to 1976, it was particularly associated with gonzo journalism then became closely associated with punk rock through the writings of Julie Burchill, Paul Morley, and Tony Parsons. In the 1970s, it became the best-selling British music newspaper. Īs a 'rock inkie', it was the first British newspaper to include a singles chart, in the edition of 14 November 1952. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a free publication, before becoming an online brand which includes its website and radio stations. New Musical Express ( NME) is a British music, film and culture website and brand.
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