Our weekly check-up on Canadian music sales and streaming stats

November 3, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments

The latest Canadian sales and streaming figures from MRC/Nielsen Canada came in on schedule last night. Here’s how the recorded music landscape shapes up this week.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -35.9%
CD sales, -51.7% (we may not see 3 million units sold for the entire year)
Digital albums, -19.9%
Digital tracks, -26.0%
Vinyl LPs, -16.7%
On-demand audio streams, +16.4%

Rough numbers to be sure, thanks to the pandemic.

Week-over-week comparisons:

Total album sales, =4.2%
CD sales, -7.5%
Digital albums, +6.9%
Digital tracks, -0.7%
Vinyl LPs, 16.6%
On-demand audio streams, -0.4% (1.730 million streams in the country last week)

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