I need someone to compile a list of the top 30 magazines that would be
best targeted for diet articles.  I have several articles that I would
like to send to those magazines.  You should rank them by size of
circulation.  The criteria are:  1) targeted towards women, 2)
mainstream and not niche, 3) health, diet, nutrition, fitness or
lifestyle all related to woman.

Examples include Woman's World, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Elle, etc.

Hello again Broker,   

The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) provides
rankings of magazines by category and circulation.

Download World Magazine Trends at this direct link.
http://www.fipp.com/assets/downloads/top%2050s.pdf

See 

Page 1: Top 50 Women's magazines worldwide (by circulation).

Page 6: Top 50 Men's magazines worldwide (by circulation)


For copyright reasons I was not able to paste the list here.

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The Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) is the industry association
for consumer magazines and is another excellent resource.

Ranking
Average Circulation for Top 100 ABC Magazines
http://www.magazine.org/Circulation/circulation_trends_and_magazine_handbook/11186.cfm

Of the 100 magazines from the above list, the following magazines
would be the most likely to be interested in diet or health articles.

In order of circulation:

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
FAMILY CIRCLE
WOMAN'S DAY
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
PEOPLE
COSMOPOLITAN
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
REDBOOK
GLAMOUR
SEVENTEEN
PARENTING
PARENTS
MARTHA STEWART LIVING
YM
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
REAL SIMPLE
IN STYLE
COOKING LIGHT
SHAPE
WOMAN'S WORLD
FIRST FOR WOMEN
FITNESS
TEEN PEOPLE
HEALTH
US WEEKLY
COSMO GIRL!
SELF
VOGUE
VANITY FAIR
WEIGHT WATCHERS
ELLE
ESSENCE
ALLURE
MARIE CLAIRE 


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Average Circulation of Top 100 ABC Magazines, 2004
A similar  list as the above would apply to this 2004 listing
http://www.mediainfocenter.org/magazine/size/avg_circ.asp




Search criteria:
Women?s Magazines ranking ?Top *?
Circulation


I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Answer by bobbie7-ga on 13 Jan 2006 09:39 PST

Media Distribution Services Top Circulation Magazines by Circulation
and by Category

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Fashion & Beauty     
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Glamour 2,509,566  
Seventeen 2,431,943 
YM 2,262,574 
InStyle  1,670,792 
Vogue  1,245,420 
Elle  989,728 
Allure  949,669 
Marie Claire  943,100 
GQ 775,084 
Harper's Bazaar  742,079 

 
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Health & Fitness      
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Medizine Healthy Living 3,501,488 
Prevention  3,150,017 
Men's Health  1,659,594 
Shape  1,692,690 
Health 1,407,660 
Self 1,332,782 
Fitness  1,197,638 
Vim & Vigor 1,056,183 
Arthritis Today 647,473 
Men's Fitness  635,150 


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Home & Lifestyle      
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Better Homes & Gardens 7,602,575 
Family Circle 4,671,052 
Good Housekeeping 4,690,508 
Woman's Day 4,167,933 
Ladies' Home Journal 4,101,280 
Cosmopolitan 3,021,720 
Redbook 2,394,184 
Martha Stewart Living 2,323,129 
O, The Oprah Magazine 2,261,570 
Country Living 1,758,891 

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Food     
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Cooking Light  1,603,680 
Bon Appetit 1,322,577 
Food & Wine  957,838 
Gourmet  934,778 
Weight Watchers 745,384 
Cooking Pleasures 647,611 
Saveur  381,585 
Wine Spectator 346,781 
Vegetarian Times 242,774 
Fine Cooking  221,108 


Media Distribution Services 
http://www.mdsconnect.com/topcirculation.htm

Another very thorough job!

Thank you very much for the rating and tip!
--Bobbie7

no problem, also, check out the new question on podcasting that i
posted in the marketing/advertising section...mabe you can help me out
with that as well.

Thank you for letting me know. I'm on it!!!