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Here’s your weekly look at Canadian music sales and streaming statistics

February 2, 2021February 1, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

A full month of 2021 has now gone by. Here’s where things stand with the recorded music industry in Canada, beginning with the year-over-year numbers.

Total album sales, -30.4%
CD sales, -52.5%
Digital albums, -20.8%
Digital tracks, -26.6%
Vinyl LPs, +19.6%
On-demand audio streams, +9.7%

Now week-over-week:

Total album sales, -1.1%
CD sales, -561%
Digital albums, -1.2%
Digital tracks, -0.1%
Vinyl LPs, +3.1%
On-demand audio streams, +2.6% (1.789 billion streams in the country last week)

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