Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 05 July 2021

July 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

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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