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Kerrang Beats NME
08/18/06
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(PR) Chris Tryhorn of MediaGuardian.co.uk reports that rock magazine Kerrang! has overtaken its weekly music rival New Musical Express and opened up a gap of nearly 6,000 copies between them.

Kerrang!, which has just celebrated its 25th birthday, sold an average of 80,186 copies in the six months between January and June this year, up 5.3% on the second half of 2005, or 24.2% year on year.

Meanwhile, IPC-owned NME dropped 3.4% compared with the previous ABC period, to 74,206, taking it below the Emap-owned Kerrang! for the first time. [Could it have been all of those Pete Doherty articles or maybe all the hyping of bands coming to America? - see full story for more] - Click here for the Full Story

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