Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 15 November 2021

The recorded music industry is bracing for the release of Adele’s 30 album this Friday. Take note of these numbers because I have a feeling they’re really going to change in the next two weeks.

Year-over-year comparisons:

• Total album sales, -12.2%
• CD sales, -6.8%
• Digital albums, -27.0%
• Digital racks, -25.4%
• Vinyl LPs, +31.3%
• On-demand audio streams, +12.5%

Now let’s compare last week to the week previous:

• Total album sales, +4.6%
• CD sales, +8.6%
• Digital albums, +1.9%
• Digital tracks, +3.6%
• Vinyl LPs, -0.8%
• On-demand audio streams, +1.2% (2.013 billion streams in the country last week)

All numbers courtesy of MRC Data.