TAS : Celebrity Magazine Statistics

Celebrity Magazine

As part of my ongoing project of compiling and analyzing Scientology's statistics, I am collecting statistics from Celebrity magazine, the magazine of the Church of Scientology's Celebrity Centre International in Los Angeles.

In February 2005, I posted an analysis of Celebrity statistics with detailed category breakouts and graphs for a complete run of stats from 1991 to 2004. A detailed preliminary analysis of the stats from 40-50% of the magazines was posted on November 2, 2003.

About the Magazine
1972-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000-2007

About Celebrity Magazine

Per policy, org magazines are supposed to come out every month in alternating Major and Minor issues. Major issues are supposed to include completions lists, and are supposed to be mailed to people who have done a service or at least bought a book; Minors are not supposed to include completions lists, and are to go to everyone on the mailing list, even people who haven't spent any money on Scn.

However, Celebrity has diverged from this policy for the start.

For the first several years, there was a Major and a Minor issue for each number. This lasted through 1978. At least one or two Minor issues included completions.

From 1979 through mid-1986, most issues had no issue numbers at all. There are instances of several consecutive issues having completions, as well as several consecutive issues having no completions.

Starting in 1986, numbering began again, starting with 200. (There had only been 110 issues prior to #200.) Subsequent issues did not always bear a Major or Minor tag, but in general, alternating issues had completions lists.

Since 1987, they've published an average of 9 issues a year, managing anywhere from 6 to 11 in any given year.

I currently have several issues. So far, completions lists have been posted from the issues linked below:

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2018

2019

I am very interested in receiving copies of, or information from, all issues of the magazine, even the ones I already have.

I will update these pages as I receive more information and have time to continue my analysis. The most complete existing analysis so far is from Source.

Many, many people have contributed to the statistics project by sending in tallies, completions lists, or old magazines. The contribution page tells more about how you can help. I thank all those who have contributed so far!