Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 05 July 2021
One-half of 2021 is now complete. How are things going with the recorded music industry so far this year? MRC Data provided the latest weekly stats
Year-over-year comparisons:
- Total album sales, -9.9%
- CD sales, -7.5%
- Digital albums, -24.2%
- Digital tracks, -26.8%
- Vinyl LPs, +53.0% (Again, that’s not a typo.)
- On-demand audio streams, +14.6%
Now let’s look at week-over-week numbers:
- Total album sales, +9.2%
- CD sales, +6.7%
- Digital albums, +4.4%
- Digital tracks, +7.1%
- Vinyl LPs, +29.6%(!!!)
- On-demand audio streams, -2.2% (1.895 billion streams in the country last week)
All figures from MRC Data
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