Let’s wrap up Canadian music sales and streaming stats for 2020
Well, that’s convenient. The last chart week of 2020 ended at 11:59 pm December 31, 2020. Here’s the final look at music sales and streaming stats for the year beginning with the year-over-year figures.
- Total album sales, down -33.8% for the year.
- CD sales, -48.4%. Just 2,843,252 CDs were sold in Canada over the last 12 months.
- Digital albums, -18.5%
- Digital tracks, -25.9%
- Vinyl LPs, -12.9%. Last year, 1,033,582 vinyl albums were sold. This year saw unit sales of 899,931.
- On-demand audio streams, +16.1%. That translates to 96,858,513,224 streams for the year.
Now we can look at week-over-week sales where we can see the effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on Boxing Day sales/
- Total album sales, -52.2%
- CD sales, -73.8% (!!!)
- Digital albums, -4.7%
- Digital tracks, +24.2%
- Vinyl LPs, -61.6%
- On-demand audio streams, -10.7% (1.709 billion streams in the country last week)
Finally, as a wrap-up to 2020, here’s a look at total album sales by region.
| 2019 | 2020 | Difference | |||
| Atlantic | 330,992 | 251,932 | -23.9% | ||
| New Brunswick | 199,261 | 141,614 | -28.9% | ||
| Quebec | 3,097,688 | 1,918,484 | -38.1% | ||
| Ontario | 3,205,430 | 2,369,949 | -26.1% | ||
| Manitoba | 303,883 | 198,404 | -34.7% | ||
| Saskatchewan | 280,113 | 190,457 | -32.0% | ||
| Alberta | 1,657,375 | 883,015 | -46.7% | ||
| British Columbia | 1,274,532 | 899,392 | -29.4% |
