UK Superclub Crisis: Ministry Magazine Shuts Down

Ministry Of Sound have announced they're closing their monthly magazine Ministry, in the latest blow to mainstream club culture in the UK. The heavily commercial title reported a dramatic decline in the latest circulation figures, losing 10,000 copies less between December and June to reach 65,000, and is shutting down just months after DMC's 7 magazine ceased publication.

According to MoS boss Mark Rodol, however, the title will be relaunching shortly as a distinctly different publication.

"It will be about global youth culture as opposed to taking pills in a nightclub in the north of England," Rodol told the Guardian.

"Dance music has shifted. Even though we were still making £500,000 a year on the magazine, I didn't want to go on producing a product that doesn't reflect the (Ministry Of Sound) brand."

In more bad news for UK dance media, Music Week revealed that Mix Mag's audited circulation figures of 100,000 copies for the same period were overstated by 25% (due to a procedural error), putting their true sales figure at around 75,000 copies.
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