Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 17 May 2021

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

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.

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