Time for your weekly look at Canadian vinyl and CD sales with a detour into streaming numbers (16 Oct 2025)

October 16, 2025 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

There are some insane numbers to report this week, all because of Taylor Swift and the release of her Life of a Showgirl album. All numbers courtesy of Luminate.

CDs sold in Canada last week: 81,056. That is NOT a typo. (Up a staggering 389.6% from last week. Again, not a typo. It’s all Tay-Tay.)
Vinyl sales in Canada last week: 89,035 (Up 299.1%. Wow, huh?)
CDs sold in Canada this year: 1,204,084 (down 4.7% from this point last year)
Vinyl sold in Canada this year: 1,324,159 (up 18.7% from a year ago).

Streaming numbers:

Songs streamed in Canada last week: 2,982,531,640 (up 0.9% from last week)
Songs streamed in Canada so far this year: 115,268,730,227 (up 5.8% from this time in 2024)

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