Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 25 May 2021
The trends in music sales and streaming numbers are holding steady this week, although it will be interesting to see what happens next weekend when the effect of The Tragically Hip’s Saskadelphia has on things.
Year-over-year comparisons:
- Total album sales, -10.3%
- CD sales, -11.1%
- Digital albums, -22.8%
- Digital tracks, -26.9%
- Vinyl LPs, +58.4% (not a typo)
- On-demand audio streaming: +15.3%
Now let’s compare last week to the week before.
- Total album sales, -4.6%
- CD sales, -3.0%
- Digital albums, -9.6%
- Digitial tracks, -1.3%
- Vinyl albums, +8.4%
- On-demand audio streams: +3.7% (1.967 billion streams in the country last week)
