Weekly Music Sales Report and Analysis: 26 March 2015
As we run out the last few days of the first quarter, sales in Canada are running a little ahead of where they were at this point last year. That’s good, obviously.
Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly debuted at #1 across the land, selling 25,000 units of which 84% were purely digital. Next up is Strangers to Ourselves, Modest Mouse’s first album in eight years, debuting at #3. Then we have Mark Knopflers’s Tracker at #4 (4,600), Froot from Marina and the Diamonds (#6, 4,500) and Run from AWOLNATION (#9, 3,700).
On the singles side, Mark Ronson’s “Uptown Funk” is the biggest digital song (22,000 in download sales) and in streaming (more than 2 million listens).
In the US, it’s also Kendrick Lamar with scans of 324,000 units (#1), Modest Mouse with 73,000 (#3), Marina and the Diamonds with 43,000 (#4), Mark Knopfler with 35,000 (#5), Sleeping with Sirens’ Madness just a few copies behind (#6) and AWOLNATION with 30,000 units (#9).
With digital singles, it’s still “Uptown Funk” on top for its 12th week, with another 187,000 downloads and 19.1 million streams. Wow.
All numbers courtesy Nielsen SoudScan.
Do you know how much Madonna’s Rebel Heart sold in Canada?
Just over 17,000 in the last two weeks. She sold 6,400 this past week, good for #2 on the charts.
Thank you!
Didn’t it sell 18,000 last week though?
Right. Sorry. That’s 18,000 plus this week’s 6,400.
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