Canadian music sales and streaming stats, 27 September 2021

How’s the recorded industry doing in Canada this week? Let’s take a look, beginning with comparing where things were last year to the same week in 2021.

• Total album sales, -10.7%
• CD sales, – 4.2%
• Digital album sales, -27.4%
• Digital tracks, -26.5%
• Vinyl LPs, +46.6%
• On-demand audio streams, +12.4%

Now week-over-week numbers:

• Total album sales, +1.6%
• CD sales, +0.3%
• Digital album sales, +6.5%
• Digital tracks, -0.8%
• Vinyl LPs, -3.9%
• On-demand audio streams, +1.5% (1.969 billion streams in the country last week)

All data courtesy MRC Data.