The Star's stellar performance has been one of the newspaper success stories of the year and, according to September's ABC figures, its strong performance continues, upping its circulation to 863,559, a rise of 18.06% year on year.
The Sun, meanwhile, registered a circulation of 3.01 million, a fall of 2.39% year on year.
All of the red-tops' circulations were slightly down on August, despite a range of promotional offers, including discounted fish and chips with the Daily Mirror.
Across the qualities, The Independent and The Times suffered double-digit percentage declines in circulation year on year. The Independent recorded a circulation of 186,490, down 15.6% year on year, while The Times' circulation dropped 10.43% year on year, to 571,506.
In the mid-market, circulations for the Daily Mail and Daily Express were down by the same margin, 3.65% year on year, although the Mail had about three times the circulation of the Express, at 2.16 million copies.
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