Weekly Music Sales Report – 10 April 2013
The Canadian music market remained in a holding pattern this week despite four new entries in the Top 10. At least year-to-date sales stayed at -2% from 2012.
Physical CD sales continue to drop and are now down 16% from 2012. Digital continues to do well, though, with digital albums ahead of 2012 totals by 21% and digital singles running 9% hot.
Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience is at #1 for the third week in the row, selling another 9,500 copies across the land. Tyler, The Creator ended up in second place this week with Wolf (7,200 units) followed by The Band Perry’s Pioneer at #3 (5,500). Killswitch Engage’s Disarm the Descent starts life at #6 (4,600 copies). And for some reason, 4,500 people bought the new New Kids on the Block album, 10. It finishes the week at #8.
The biggest single in Canada is still “Just Give Me a Reason” from Pink with another 29,000 downloads.
In the US, sales are running cold by 5% so far this year with CD sales down 16% from last year. On the digital side, albums are up (10%) but digital tracks are down 1% from 2012. That’s worrisome.
Justin Timberlake stays at #1, selling another 139,000 copies of The 20/20 Experience. The Band Perry comes in at #2 (129,000) and Tyler, The Creator at #3 (86,000). Stunning fact: 51,000 Americans bought the New Kids on the Block album, good enough to push it to #6. Not like the old days, huh, guys.
The biggest single in the US belongs to Bruno Mars with “When I Was Your Man” (340,000 downloads) and the most-streamed song was “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons (1,472,272 listens).
All figures courtesy of Nielsen Soundscan.
