Here’s our weekly have a look at vinyl gross sales in Canada. (Spoiler: They are nonetheless good.)

Luminate, the corporate that measures all method of music consumption in Canada, tells us this week that vinyl remains to be having a superb 12 months.

So far in 2023, Canadians have purchased 228,774 items of contemporary vinyl, which means that used vinyl and something purchases on-line and at report exhibits aren’t included. That’s year-over-year improve of 34%.

Compare that to compact discs, which have seen a year-to-date drop in gross sales of 19.7%. With 227,319 items offered, CDs are just about operating neck-and-neck with vinyl.

While we purchased 26,238 vinyl records final week (about the identical because the week earlier) we additionally bought 27,838 CDs, a drop of 5.5%.