Let’s check on the Canadian sales battle between CDs and vinyl

October 17, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

First, we need to tackle something about vinyl says. Luminate release some data earlier this week that indicated vinyl sales in the US had dropped by 33% this year. That is not true. Sales are actually up by 6.2%. And as you’ll see, they’re up by a lot more than that in Canada.

Total CD sales in Canada last week: 31,265 (up 11.8% from the previous week)
Total vinyl sales in Canada last week: 31,495 (up 18.0% from the previous week and the first week I can remember where vinyl outsold CDs)
CDs sold in all of Canada so far this year: 1,295,043 (down 11.9% from this time last year)
Vinyl sold across Canada sold this year: 1,146,643 (up a whopping 30.6% from a year ago)

Canadian streaming stats? Sure.

On-demand audio streams last week: 2,776,875,025 (up 0.7% from last week)
On-demand audio streams so far this year: 111.756,488,191

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