Time and Tide never sold well; its peak circulation was 14,000 copies.
During Towne's editorship, the magazine reached its peak circulation of 165,000 in 1905.
In 1990, it counted a circulation of 11,000, and it went on to achieve a peak circulation of 16,000.
At the time it folded, The Century had 20,000 subscribers, less than a tenth of its peak circulation of the late nineteenth century.
This decision was made to improve sales which in mid-2007 had fallen to 23,000 per month down from a monthly peak circulation of 80,000 in the late 1990s.
Its peak circulation was 50,000 copies in 1839; like other Chartist papers it was often read aloud in workers' circles.
The magazine was one of the success stories of ufology, with an international reputation for quality and a peak circulation of 35,000.
West Shore reached its peak circulation of about 15,000 in 1890.
Even at its peak circulation of 25,000, however, it did not make money.
They went out on their own and started Back Stage in 1960 with a run of ten thousand copies per week, reaching a peak circulation of 32,000.