Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 17 May 2021

What’s up with music sales and streams in this country? Let’s take a look at the latest stats starting with year-over-year comparisons.

• Total album sales, -10.5%
• CD sales, -12.6%
• Digital albums, -22.4%
• Digital tracks, -26.5%
• Vinyl LPs, +60.7%
• On-demand audio streams, +15.3%

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

• Total album sales, -6.6%
• CD sales, -13.7%
• Digital albums, +3.3%
• Digital tracks, -1.1%
• Vinyl LPs, -15.9%
• On-demand audio streams, +1.0% (1.896 billion streams in the country last week)

Last week’s numbers.