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Canadian Music Sales Report: Week Ending May 21, 2026

Here is this week's Luminate Data Market Watch national sales report, featuring stats for Canadian album sales, streams, digital sales and more.

Here is this week's Luminate Data Market Watch report which features Canadian music stats for the current week and YTD with comparisons to last year. This chart is published every Tuesday. The abbreviation "TEA" is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. A track equivalent album is equal to 10 tracks, or 10 songs.

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Rivers Cuomo of Weezer at the 2025 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 12, 2025 in Indio, California.

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Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo Uploads Unplugged Covers of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Nirvana, Guns N’ Roses, Outkast

The solo acoustic takes appear to mostly be from 2018-2019.

What would Outkast’s “Hey Ya” sound like if it were played solo acoustic by Weezer singer Rivers Cuomo? How about Nirvana’s “Drain You” or Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)” as a sad boy emo ballad?

Over the weekend, Cuomo uploaded more than a dozen stripped-down covers to YouTube labeled “Private upload for playlist: randum cuverz,” most of which appeared to have been recorded in 2018 and 2019. The list opens with an emotional cover of Radiohead’s breakthrough 1992 single “Creep,” rendered even more fragile in Cuomo’s unadorned version.

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Canadian Music Sales Report: Week Ending May 21, 2026

Here is this week's Luminate Data Market Watch national sales report, featuring stats for Canadian album sales, streams, digital sales and more.

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