List of best-selling individual magazine covers
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This is a list of some of the highest-selling magazine cover issues. It does not take into consideration centerfolds and posters. It includes any type of magazine and single special editions. Groupings are based on over 3 million newsstands copies and distribution.
The examples and perspective in this article deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (January 2023) |
Considered "The Greatest Magazine Ever Published" by David Plotz, Life magazine figures sold the most amount for decades, with a weekly circulation of 4 million copies and over 10 million readers in their prime, then-10 percent of U.S population.[1] In recent years, People became weekly's highest-seller,[1] and various single issues reached over 2 million copies.[2]