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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 25 May 2021

May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 Alan Cross 1 Comment Canada, Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

The trends in music sales and streaming numbers are holding steady this week, although it will be interesting to see

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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 17 May 2021

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, MRC, Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

What’s up with music sales and streams in this country? Let’s take a look at the latest stats starting with

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 03 May 2021

May 4, 2021May 6, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, MRC, Music Streaming, Nielsen

I should have posted this last night when the email arrived, but I was too busy watching Family Guy. Here’s

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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 26 April 2021

April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, MRC, Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

Every Monday night, the people at Nielsen/MRC send out a bulletin featuring the latest Canadian music sales and streaming statistics,

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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 19 April 2021

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

As usual, MRC/Nielsen’s email featuring Canadian music sales and streaming stats appeared in my inbox Monday evening. Here’s how the

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats (22 March 2021)

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music sales, Nielsen, Streams

Time for a quick spin through Canadian music sales and streaming stats courtesy Nielsen/MRC starting with a look at things

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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats (08 March 2021)

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

The last couple of weeks have seen the unleashing of a tsunami of new releases, material that was written and

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments MRC, Music sales, Nielsen

Okay, so I forgot to post this Monday evening when MRC/Nielsen sent out the email. Let’s get caught up on

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Music Industry 

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

Monday may have been a stat in many provinces across Canada, but Nielsen/MRC came through with its weekly look at

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Music Industry 

Our weekly look at Canadian music sales and streams

February 8, 2021February 8, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

We’re well into February. How are things looking for Canadian music sales and streams now that we’re at almost the

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Music Industry 

Here’s our weekly check on Canadian music sales and streams.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Canada, Music sales, Nielsen, Streaming

So how is 2021 looking this week? Let’s begin by comparing things to a year ago. Total album sales, -29.5%

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