Another weekly check on Canadian music sales and streaming stats

November 23, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Nielsen/MRC’s report on Canadian music sales and streaming stats for the week ending November 20 appeared in my inbox right on time. Let’s start by comparing the situation year over year.

Total album sales, -34.%
CD sales, -50.3%
Digital albums, -19.7%
Digital tracks, -25.9%
Vinyl LPs, -12.6%
On-demand audio streams, +16.2%

Given that we’re in the midst of a pandemic, those numbers are skewed. Let’s look at things week over week.

Total album sales, +28.9% (Thanks to AC/DC’s strong showing with the Power Up album)
CD sales, +42.2% (same!)
Digital albums, +19.1% (and again!)
Digital tracks, -1.6%
Vinyl LPs, +14.1%
On-demand audio streams. -1.4% (1.730 billion streams in the country last week)

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