The Canadian gross sales battle between vinyl and CDs continues

The newest knowledge from Luminate, the monitor of all music consumption in Canada, exhibits that the gross sales race between vinyl and CDs continues to be shut. For the interval ending February 29, year-to-date gross sales seemed like this.

• CD gross sales: 286,378 (down 19.6% from the identical interval in 2023)
• Vinyl gross sales: 279,437 (up 32.9% from 2023) That determine doesn’t embrace the gross sales of used vinyl at file shops, file exhibits, and on-line.

It’s additionally instructive to have a look at the gross sales race week-by-week. For the week February 22-29:

• CD gross sales: 30,051 (a rise of three.6% from the earlier week)
• Vinyl gross sales: 29,096 (a rise of two.4%)

In different phrases, we’ve bought an actual horse race.

Moving to streaming, Canadians streamed 2.701 billion songs final week. That’s up 0.3% from the earlier week. Measuring issues from this time in 2023, streaming is up 11.6%.