Music Industry

It’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. We’ll look at streaming, too. (02 July 2026)

The last sales/streaming report of the first half of 2026 has arrived via Luminate. Here’s where we are at the six month mark.,

  • CDs sold in Canada last week: 28,715 (Down 4.6% from last week. This breaks a weeks-long upward trend.)
  • Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 35,268 (Down 0.5% from last week)
  • CDs sold in Canada so far this year: 731,318 (Up 1.3% from a year ago. Sales continue to trend up.)
  • Vinyl sold in Canada this year:871,245 (Up 5.7% from this time last year.)

  Streaming numbers:

  • Songs streamed in Canada last week: 3,030,174,195 (Down 0.9% from a week ago. This is the eleventh week in a row where weekly streams exceeded three billion.)
  • Songs streamed in Canada so far this year: 74,255,857,354 (Up 3.4% from last year.)

Alan Cross

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