Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats
Okay, so I forgot to post this Monday evening when MRC/Nielsen sent out the email. Let’s get caught up on what happened with Canadian music sales and streaming from last week.
Year-over-year stats:
- Total album sales, -28.4%
- CD sales, -48.2%
- Digital albums, -19.7%
- Digital tracks, -25.1%
- Vinyl LPs, +24.3%
- On-demand audio streams, +10.7%
Now comparing things week-over-week:
- Total album sales, -1.6%
- CD sales, +0.5%
- Digital albums, -6.0%
- Digital tracks, -1.7%
- Vinyl LPs, +4.1%
- On-demand audio streams, +2.3% (1.832 billion streams in the country last week)