Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 18 October 2021
I went to bed last night before the weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats came in. I feel shame.
Here’s where things stand compared to last year.
- Total album sales, -11.5%
- CD sales, -5.1%
- Digital albums, -27.7%
- Digital tracks, -26.2%
- Vinyl LPs, +41%
- On-demand audio streams, +12.4%
Now let’s look at the week-over-week numbers.
- Total album sales, -4.6%
- CD sales, -0.1%
- Digital albums, -6.0%
- Digital tracks, 0.8%
- Vinyl LPs, -12.0%
- On-demand audio streams, -0.9% (1.960 billion streams in the country last week).
It’ll be interesting to watch the Adele Effect in the coming weeks. All numbers courtesy MRC.
More sales stats here.