Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats

February 16, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Monday may have been a stat in many provinces across Canada, but Nielsen/MRC came through with its weekly look at music sales and streaming stats for the country.

Here are things as compared to where we were in 2020:

Total album sales, -28.0%
CD sales, -49.8%
Digital albums, -18.4%
Digital tracks, -25.2%
Vinyl LPs, +23.9%
On-demand audio streams, _10.3%

Now week-to-week:

Total album sales, +10.9%
CD sales, +19.2%
Digital albums, +5.3%
Digital tracks, -4.5%
Vinyl LPs, +10.5%
On-demand audio streams, -1.2% (1.797 billion streams in the country last week)

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