Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats (22 March 2021)

March 23, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Time for a quick spin through Canadian music sales and streaming stats courtesy Nielsen/MRC starting with a look at things year-over-year.

Total album sales, -24.9%
CD sales, -43.0%
Digital albums, -18.0%
Digital tracks, -23.6%
Vinyl LPs, +30.7%
Total on-demand audio streams, +11.9%

Now let’s check things compared to last week.

Total album sales, +0.3%
CD sales, -0.8%
Digital albums, -0.8%
Digital tracks, -2.7%
Vinyl LPs, +6.7%
Total on-demand audio streams, -0.8% (1.879 billion streams in the country last week.

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