Music Industry

Let’s wrap up 2025 sales of CDs and vinyl in Canada (08 Jan 2026)

Luminate has released the last CD and vinyl sales report for 2025. Here are those numbers along with the final stats for streams, too.

  • CDs sold in Canada last week: 20,857 (Down 67.8% from last week. That’s not a typo.)
  • Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 50,420 (Down 51.7% from a week ago)
  • CDs sold in Canada this year: 1,704,522 (Down 5.4% from the end of 2024.)
  • Vinyl sold in Canada this year: 2,053,881(Up 15.30% from a year ago).

  Streaming numbers:

  • Songs streamed in Canada last week: 2,564,016,074 (Down 14.3% from a week ago)
  • Songs streamed in Canada so far this year: 150,154,823,151 (Up 5.3% from the end of 2024)

Alan Cross

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