Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 29 March 2021

March 30, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

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

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