Let’s check on Canadian music sales and streaming for this week

January 19, 2021January 18, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

It’s Tuesday, so that must mean it’s time to look at how Canadian music sales and streaming are doing. We begin as usual with the year-over-year numbers. Keep in mind that January is traditionally a very slow month.

Total album sales, -26.0%
CD sales, -50.4%
Digital albums, -11.5%
Digital tracks, -26.7%
Vinyl LPs, +13%
On-demand audio streams, +8.9%

Now here are the week-over-week numbers.

Total album sales, -3.4%
CD sales, +2.2%
Digital albums, +5.3%
Digital tracks, +1.7%
Vinyl LPs, -28.7%
On-demand audio streams, +5.8% (1.723 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Nielsen/MRC, of course.

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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