Here’s our weekly check on Canadian music sales and streaming stats
If it’s Monday evening, then Nielsen/MRC has the weekly sales and streaming stats for Canada. As has become our habit during the pandemic, let’s analyze things in two ways.
Year-over-year comparision
- Total album sales, -35.6%
- CD sales, -46.0%
- Digital albums, -19.9%
- Digital tracks, -26.0%
- Vinyl LPs, -15.3%
- On-demand audio, +16.3%
Week-to-week (a good indicator of the record music economy during COVID)
- Total album sales, +1.3%
- CD sales, +6.8%
- Digital albums, -5.0%
- Digital tracks, -4.8%
- Vinyl LPs, +1.9%
- On-demand audio, +0.4% (1.736 billion streams in the country last week)
