This is your weekly Canadian CD, vinyl, and streaming report (01 August 2025)

August 1, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Here’s a quick look at how Canadians are getting their music via CDs, vinyl, and streaming. I betcha if you drilled down deep, Ozzy/Sabbath figures in a lot All figures courtesy of Luminate.

CDs sold in Canada last week: 32,890 (up 9.7% from last week)
Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 329,839 (down 12.1% after a very big jump last week)
CDs sold in Canada this year: 841,160 (down 8.9% from this point last year)
Vinyl sold in Canada this year: 907,629 (up 14.8% from a year ago)

Streaming numbers:

Songs streamed in Canada last week: 2,943,846,899 (down 0.3% from last week)
Songs streamed in Canada so far this year: 83,090,383,616 (up 5.2% from this time in 2024)

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