Let’s look at the weekly Canadian sales battle between CDs and vinyl

March 13, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

We can probably call it now: Vinyl will outsell CDs in Canada in 2025. Barring a complete collapse in the vinyl market, we’ll buy more LPs than CDs this year. Here are the latest numbers via Luminate.

CDs sold in Canada last week: 31,271 (up a healthy 9.2% from last week)
Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 31,250 (up 3.6% from a week earlier)
CDs sold in Canada this year: 262,107 (up 2.3% from a year ago.)
Vinyl sold in Canada this year: 294.918 (up 16.2% from this point in 2024).

Streaming numbers:

Songs streamed in Canada last week: 2,789,251,645 (down 2.1% from last week)
Songs streamed in Canada so far this year: 24,987,623,679 (up 6.2% from a year ago.)

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