Let’s look at this week’s Canadian sales battle between CDs and vinyl

September 26, 2024 Alan Cross 0 Comments

We haven’t seen this kind of format horserace since sometime in the early 90s. Who would have ever thought that vinyl would come back to the point where it’s challenging CDs for the top format for recorded music? And again, these figures from Luminate (the music consumption monitors) only include new vinyl and nothing used sold elsewhere.

Total CDs sold in Canada this week: 30,710
Total vinyl records sold in Canada this week: 29,230
Total CDs sold in Canada so far in 2024: 1,205776
Total vinyl sold in Canada this year: 1,058,924

As for streaming:

Total audio streams in Canada last week: 2,804,235,831
Total streams in the whole country so far this year: 103,440,868,551

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