Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 12 July 2021

July 13, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Data from the first week of the second half of 2021 is here. How do things look for the Canadian recorded music industry at this point?

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -10.0%
CD sales, -6.9%
Digital album sales, -24.8%
Digital track sales, –26.9%
Vinyl LPs, +53.3% (Vinyl is on fire!)
On-demand audio streams, +14.3%

Now let’s look at the week-over-week numbers:

Total albums sales, -6.4%
CD sales, +6.8%
Digital album sales, -17.2%
Digital track sales, -10.5%
Vinyl LPs, -13.3%
On-demand audio streams, -2.4% (1.850 billion streams in the country last week)

All data courtesy MRC Data

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