Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 01 November 2021

November 2, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

More weekly data from MRC on how the Canadian recorded music industry is doing in real time. We’ll start with the year-over-year figures.

Total album sales, -12.2%
CD sales, -6.3%
Digital albums, -27.6%
Digital tracks, -25.8%
Vinyl LPs, +35.3%
On-demand audio streams, +12.4%

Now let’s compare last week to the one before:

Total album sales, +2.9%
CD sales, +4.9%
Digital albums, +0.7%
Digital tracks, -1.3%
Vinyl LPs, +2.8%
On-demand audio streams, -1.0% (1.991 billion streams in the country last week)

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