How goes the CDs vs vinyl battle in Canada this week?

November 1, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Apologies for delivering this info a day late, but I was traveling to the UK to see the Cure tonight. I’ll have more on that later. Meanwhile, here’s how the CDs vs vinyl battle is going in Canada.

Total CD sales in Canada last week: 30,725 (up 6.8% from the previous week)
Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 29,863 (down 6.2% from a week earlier)
CD sales in Canada so far this year: 1,354,543 (down 11.2% from 2023)
VInyl sales in Canada so far this year: 1,208,351 (up 30.6% from a year ago)

Streaming stats? Sure!

Songs streamed in Canada last week: 2,781,581,524 (up 1.8% from a week earlier)
Songs streamed in Canada this year: 117,264,345,721 (up 10.1% from this point in 2023)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

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