Murdoch’s The Daily claims it’s the top-grossing iPad app in the world, but is it?

In a post published on its official Tumblr, the digital newspaper The Daily claims it is now the “top-grossing iPad app in the world”.

While the post included a screen capture from Apple’s Top Chart, we decided to go check for ourselves, and found out that The Daily is indeed the top-grossing iPad app in the US App Store:

However, there is a catch; as far as we know, Apple doesn’t publish a worldwide Top Chart. While the US App Store is the top-grossing App Store, there’s no way to know if other apps are more popular globally than The Daily when you add up its revenues in each country.

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After all, The Daily’s appeal is non-existent outside English-speaking countries, which isn’t the case of ‘Smurfs’ Village’ and many other popular paid apps.

We have reached out to The Daily to ask for more details about its methodology – but for now, all that we know for sure is that its iPad app is doing very well in the US.

Yet, this is already quite an achievement; launching a newspaper that is only available via subscription on Apple tablets was a gamble, and it apparently turned out quite well – though we’d now recommend you to take its math with a pinch of salt.

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