The Celebs Who Sell The Most Magazines
Posted by: Catherine Strawn
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8:00AM, Saturday April 11th 2009
Magazines try to put celebrities on their covers who will sell copies on newsstands, but some stars just don’t seem to attract readers the way others do. WWD searched newsstand sales numbers from the Audit Bureau of Circulations and found that Angelina Jolie, Victoria Beckham, and Lauren Conrad seem to do consistently well, no matter what magazine cover they’re on or what month the issue comes out. Vanity Fair‘s July Jolie cover was that magazine’s best seller for 2008, as was her November W. Beckham’s Elle and Allure covers were those magazine’s best sellers, and Conrad’s Shape cover sold more than that magazine’s other issues. Some cover stars you would think would do well actually fluctuated based on what mag they were on and month their cover came out. Both Eva Longoria Parker and Scarlett Johansson were best sellers for some magazines and worst sellers for others. Do you buy magazines based on who is pictured on their covers? [WWD]
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Lynn
wrote on April 11 2009 @ 08:10 pm: [report]
Lauren Conrad? Do magazine readers usually like to feel the great need to lobotomize themselves after reading?
CheeeeEEEEse
wrote on April 11 2009 @ 08:28 pm: [report]
I don’t know about womens magazines, but all you need to do is put a Ferrari or Porsche on the cover on the news-stand for me to pick it up.
sergal
wrote on April 11 2009 @ 11:01 pm: [report]
Scarlett Johansson “actress"actually is a clone from original person,who has nothing with acting career.Clons made from stolen biomaterial
stephoney22
wrote on April 13 2009 @ 01:14 pm: [report]
Yes, I have chosen not to buy a particular magazine because of the cover “model”. I don’t buy regularly so when I do I am very picky as to the types of articles and the people and causes they endorse. I usually only buy women’s health magazines anyways since they are fairly un-trashy compared to the rest but I have chosen not to buy even those because of my distaste for the cover celeb. *Side note: I must say that the last few Marie Claire’s I have seen had very good human interest articles, not found in other beauty/Hollywood type mags.