Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 26 April 2021

April 27, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Every Monday night, the people at Nielsen/MRC send out a bulletin featuring the latest Canadian music sales and streaming statistics, something eagerly awaited by the music industry. How’s business?

Let’s start with year-over-year numbers, comparing last week to the same week 12 months ago.

Total album sales, -12.3%
CD sales, -18.3%
Digital albums, -21.2%
Digital tracks, -25.4%
Vinyl LPs, +58.0%(!!!)
On-demand audio streams, +15.0%

How about week-over-week? Any improvements?

Total album sales, +48.0%
CD sales, +101.2% (No, that’s NOT a typo).
Digital albums, +11.9%
Digital tracks, -1.7%
Vinyl LPs, +10.9%
On-demand audio streams, -2.1% (1.860 billion streams in the country last week).

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