Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming for 06 December 2021

December 7, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

This is the second week of Adele. We’ll get to her 30 album in a sec, but first, let’s look at a comparison of Canadian music sales and streaming stats from this time a year ago.

Total album sales, -12.2%
CD sales, -7.6%
Digital albums, -26.6%
Digital tracks, -25.0%
Vinyl LPs, +25.9%
On-demand audio streams, +12.7%

Now here’s the week-over-week stats:

Total album sales, -13.4%
CD sales, 8.1%
Digital albums, -30.5%
Digital tracks, -1.3%
Vinyl LPs, -1.7%
On-deland audio streams, +1.8% (2.084 billion streams in the country last week, a new high)

All figures courtesy MRC Data.

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