Record #00406Culture & Entertainment archive
Best-Selling Manga Magazine by Cumulative Circulation
Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump, launched in Japan in 1968, has distributed more than 7.5 billion copies over its lifetime, making it the leading manga magazine by documented cumulative circulation.
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Current Record
more than7.5 billioncopies
Current record value
- Holder
- Weekly Shōnen Jump
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- Record status
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Overview
Archive NoteFounded in 1968, Weekly Shōnen Jump became a major weekly platform for Japanese shōnen comics, serializing titles such as Dragon Ball and One Piece.
Its lifetime figure exceeds 7.5 billion copies even though recent per-issue print circulation has fallen as readership shifts to digital formats. By the second quarter of 2026, average printed circulation was below one million per issue.
Record history
1 Milestones- more than 7.5 billion copiesWeekly Shōnen JumpCurrent Record
Sources
Evidence & ReferencesVerification basis and limitations
VerifiedThe record conclusion has sufficient verification support.
Basis: direct confirmation by an authority
Guinness's category page reports Weekly Shōnen Jump's more than 7.5 billion cumulative copies since 1968, while its headline value of 1,282,500 denotes average per-issue weekly circulation in July–September 2022, not the lifetime total. Nippon.com's 2026 analysis independently recounts the cumulative 7.5-billion mark and a subsequent decline in per-issue print circulation. The current entry is a documented lower bound, not a live total.
- Verification assessment
- 2026-11-05
- Last editorial review
- 2026-11-05
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