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Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 Nov 2022

With just a few short weeks left in the year, we’re getting an idea of how the recording music industry

The 41st week of 2022 looked like this to the Canadian recorded music industry. Year-over-year comparisons: Total album sales, -10.7%

While the recorded music industry’s focus is now on fall releases, we still need to keep track of how things

We’re at the point of the year when everything that needed to be out for summer is out. All that’s

You’d think that an album that has sold somewhere beyond 45 million copies would have at one point reached #1

There is an inevitability in the music business. If the frontman of a huge band dies, sales and streams skyrocket.

Last year was a good one for the sales of vinyl in Canada. According to SoundScan, slightly more than one

Nielsen Music Canada has just released its summary of 2017. Amongst all the stats about sales, streaming and radio airplay

January 8, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Sales, Vinyl

It was another a good year for vinyl in Canada with sales up 22% over 2016. Here are the top

Warm weather is officially around the corner, which means it’s time for some summer tours! Plenty of international super stars

Let’s be clear: the iPod saved Apple. Sure, the company could have continued selling desktops and computers, but the world