NME recorded a 9.8% circulation decline on the previous six months, falling below the 30,000 mark, to 29,020.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/18/nme-circulation-falls

It's a shame, as the content is better than I can remember it ever being (admittedly I've read stuff from the 70s and early 80s which was top notch but I obviously wasn't reading it back then)