Checking on weekly Canadian music sales and streaming data

Nielsen/MRC delivered the weekly music stats. Here they are starting with the scary year-over-year figures.

• Total album sales, -34.4%
• CD sales, -49.5%
• Digital albums, -19.6%
• Digital tracks, -25.9%
• Vinyl LPs, -10.7%
• On-demand audio streams, +16.1%

A more granular view of things are the week-to-week numbers.

• Total album sales, +12.7% (and that does NOT include Black Friday sales on, you know, Black Friday itself.)
• CD sales, +16.6%
• Digital albums, -1.5%
• Digital tracks, +2.9%
• Vinyl LPs, +28.6%
• On-demand audio streams, +2.0% (1.765 billion streams in the country last week)