Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 04 October 2021

October 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Oops. Sorry I’m late with this week’s report but I got…distracted. Anyway, here’s how things shape up for the Canadian recorded music industry this week, starting with year-over-year comparisons.

Total album sales, -11.0%
CD sales, -4.4%
Digital album sales, -27.6%
Digital track sales, -26.5%
Vinyl LPs, +44.8%
On-demand audio streams, +12.4%

Let’s compare week over week.

Total album sales, +0.9%
CD sales, +3.8%
Digital album sales, 0.9%
Digital track sales, -3.0%
Vinyl LPs, -1.7%
On-demand audio streams, 0.0% (1.968 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures from MRC Data

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