Here’s your weekly check on Canadian music sales and streams

With just a couple of weeks to go before Christmas, here’s how the Canadian recorded music industry is doing, starting with the ugly comparisons between this time in 2019 and today.

• Total album sales, -34.0%
• CD sales, -48.9%
• Digital albums, -43.2%
• Digital tracks, -25.9%
• Vinyl LPs, -10.3%
• On-demand audio streams, +16.0%

Now let’s compare week-over-week (which includes Black Friday sales).

• Total album sales, +4.2%
• CD sales, +3.2%
• Digital albums, -1.2%
• Digital tracks, +1/4%
• Vinyl LPs, +16.0%
• On-demand audio streams, +3.1% (1.819 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Nielsen/MRC