Here’s our weekly take 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 yr.

So far in 2023, Canadians have purchased 228,774 items of contemporary vinyl, that 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 bought, CDs are just about working 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%.