Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 29 March 2021
How are things for the people who make a living within the Canadian recorded music industry? Let’s start with looking at music sales and streaming last week compared to the same week in 2020.
- Total album sales, -24.2%
- CD sales, -41.3%
- Digital albums, -19.2%
- Digital tracks, –23.7%
- Vinyl LPs, +35.6%
- On-demand audio streams, +9.0%
Now let’s compare last week to the week before.
- Total album sales, -3.3%
- CD sales, -0/9%
- Digital albums, -3.3%
- Digital tracks, -3.0%
- Vinyl LPs, -9.5%
- On-demand audio streams, +1.8% (1.912 billion streams in the country last week)
All figures courtesy Nielsen/MRC
