Men's Health is third with sales of 12,081, down 1%, and Total Film top, with a digital circulation of 12,280, up 51%.
The Wall Street Journal gained about 200,000 in daily circulation from 2011 and had a digital circulation of 794,594.
It has a combined print and digital circulation of 170,000.
Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 720,000 (Deloitte assured, Q4 2014).
The publication has combined paid print and digital circulation of nearly 45,000.
However, when the Economist's digital circulation of 12,642 is included, pushing its combined print and digital sales up to 221,080, the gap is much smaller.
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, digital circulation of magazines — on tablets, paid Web sites and mobile phones — has doubled in the past year.
The specialist technology magazine's digital circulation and proportion of digital to print readers are well ahead of equivalent figures for many of the more general interest titles.
The top magazine brand across print and digital is IPC's What's on TV, with a combined circulation of 1,084,302, though the proportion of digital circulation is miniscule, at 1,104 e-editions, Behind What's on TV are the monthly titles Glamour and Good Housekeeping.
Some analysts pointed to the growth of digital circulation as a hopeful sign for the company.
The Wall Street Journal was the only paper with a larger paid digital circulation, with more than 537,000.
