Tracking the Canadian gross sales battle between CDs and vinyl in 2024: Where are we this week?

Vinyl hasn’t been this common for the reason that early 90s, though it has but to take again the gross sales crown from CDs. Yes, vinyl is out-grossing CDs by way of income (that’s as a result of records are so rattling costly) however CDs are nonetheless promoting extra items on a weekly foundation. The hole, nonetheless, is reducing. Here’s the place issues stand for the week ending May 9, 2024, in keeping with Luminate.

• Total CDs bought in Canada to this point this yr: 604,687 (down 16.9% from this time final yr)
• Total NEW vinyl bought in Canada to this point: 563,874 (up a whopping 36% from a yr in the past)
• CDs bought final week: 31,542 (down 15.8% from the earlier week)
• Vinyl bought final week: 26,632 (down 10.9%)

Streaming? Canadians have accessed 50,905,649,742 audio streams to this point in 2024, which is up 11.5% from this level in 2023. Last week alone, we listened to 2.804 billion songs.