This is your weekly Canadian CD, vinyl, and streaming report (08 August 2025)

August 7, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

What’s going on with sales of vinyl and CDs this week? How about some streaming numbers? Glad to help out with these figures from Luminate.

CDs sold in Canada last week: 35,938 (up 9.3% from last week. Is that an Ozzy/Sabbath bump??
Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 34,426 (up 15.4%. Another Ozzy/Sabbath bump?)
CDs sold in Canada this year: 877,098 (down 8.4% from this point last year)
Vinyl sold in Canada this year: 972,046 (up 15.0% from a year ago)

Streaming numbers:

Songs streamed in Canada last week: 2,912,251,948 (down 0.8% from last week)
Songs streamed in Canada so far this year: 86,002,635,564 (up 5.3% from this time in 2024)

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