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.
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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.
U.S. Girls
This week's new releases include albums from Skydiggers and Men I Trust. Check out our full calendar of Canadian albums.
The Canadian music calendar is filling with spring and summer releases.
There are a number of new artists with anticipated albums out this week. Indie-pop duo and Polaris Prize longlisters Bibi Club have released a deluxe edition of their Feu de Garde, while prolific (over 20 albums and EPs) Toronto roots-rock veterans Skydiggers have released Dreams & Second Chancesand acclaimed folk-rocker Ryan Wayne has put out his second solo outing, Functioning Dysfunctionals.
Emerging folk-roots outfit Robert Thomas & The Sessionmen deliver The Way We Roll, alt-pop duo Bestfriend return with Bestfriend Has An Identity Crisis, Sudbury singer-songwriter Kate Maki releases her seventh solo album, Impossible Knot,and Newfoundlandfolk duo Rube & Rake put out their third album, Good Time After Bad.
Critical favourite and Polaris Prize shortlister U.S. Girls (Meg Remy) has also announced she will release her next full-length album, Scratch It, on June 20 on Royal Mountain and 4AD. It is being described as "a rock and roll album that bleeds soul." The first single "Bookends" pays tribute to late Power Trip frontman Riley Gale, which ponders death as the equalizer for all human history.
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Here is the full list of new and upcoming Canadian album releases.
1: Hermitess, Death & The Fool
1: The Vaniers, So Bad, So Good
1: Kevin Hearn, Portland Parish
2: Lights, A6
2: Goodnight Sunrise, GET A LIFE
2: Kelly Bado, Belles âmes (Good People) (Odd Doll Records)
2: Marie Dresselhuis, A Little Quiet At First
2: Lowest Of The Low, Over Years and Over Night (Sonic Envy)
2: Henry Burnz & WILLA, 418
2: Abigail Lapell, More Songs About Love
2: Propagandhi, At Peace (Epitaph)
2: The Lightning Struck, Century Storm
2: Tumble, Lost In Light
2: PUP, Who Will Look After The Dogs?
2: Reuben and The Bullhorn Singers, All These Roads
2: Moonshine, MS for Location, Vol. 6 ( Moonshine/ADA Warner)
2: Tean Dream, Shine
6: Lou-Adriane Cassidy, Triste Animal
6: Men I Trust, Equus Caballus
9: Kate Maki, Impossible Knot
9: Hanorah, Closer Than Hell (Ensoul Records)
9: Kara-Lis Coverdale, From Where You Came (Envision Records)
9: Bestfriend, Bestfriend Has An Identity Crisis (Nettwerk)
9: Ryan Wayne, Functioning Dysfunctionals
9: Skydiggers, Dreams & Second Chances
9: Robert Thomas & The Sessionmen, The Way We Roll
9: Rube & Rake, Good Times After Bad (LHM Records)
9: Tsundial, S/T
9: Skydiggers, Dreams & Second Chances
9: Bibi Club, FEU DE GARDE (LES BRAISES)- Deluxe edition (Secret City)
9: Preoccupations, Ill at Ease (Born Losers)
12: Mike Trask, Beet
14: Absolute Treat, Shattered Love (Victory Pool)
15: Wardrobe, Common Touch
16: Ensign Broderick, Come Down and Mirror Ring
16: Alex Henry Foster, A Nightfall Ritual (Hopeful Tragedy)
16: Chinese Medicine, The Trans Agenda (Twin Fang)
16: The Commoners, Live In The UK
16: Larry Kurtz & The Lawbreakers, Take A Ride
16: Shawny - Go Go Stop -Music & Movement for Kids
16: Tanika Charles, Reasons To Stay
16: Dan Mangan, Natural Light ( Arts & Crafts)
16: EKKSTACY, forever
20: Gordon Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane, Double Take
23: David Celia , Organica (vinyl edition)
23: New Chance, A Rock Unsteady, (We Are Time)
23: Cassia Hardy, In Relation (Mint Records)
23: Ryland James, Heart of Me( 21 Entertainment Group)
23: L.O.E (Last of Eden), I Was Not Magnificent
23: Flara K., Seasons
23: Two Hours Traffic, I Never See You Anymore
23: Stephane Archambault, Point
25: Alexander Gallant, Rubber Monster Suit (Tibet Street Records)
26: The Dirty Nil, Free Rein To Passions (Dine Alone)
27: Opal Dar, Birds Hurting Birds Who Hurt Birds
30: Amy Millan, I Went To Find You (Last Gang Records)
30: Mint Simon, Chimera
30: SamWoy, Even Sad Boys Like to Have Fun (Hidden Ship)
30: Foxwarren, 2 (Arts & Crafts)
3: Jocelyn Pettit & Ellen Gira, Here To Stay
6: Born Ruffians, Beauty’s Pride (Wavy Haze Records)
6: Suzie Ungerleider, Among the Evergreens (MVKA)
6: Hannah Marcus, Ten Bones from a Virgin Graveyard ( Bar/None Records)
6: Ambre Ciel, still, there is the sea
6: Mother Mother, Nostalgia(Warner Music)
6: Monkey House, Crashbox (ALMA Records)
6: Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani (Backward Music)
6: Curtis Nowosad, I Am Doing My Best ( La Reserve)
6: Various Artists, ANTHEMS: A Celebration of Broken Social Scene's You Forgot It In People (Arts & Crafts)
6: Ken Yates, Total Cinema
6: The Knocks and Dragonette, Revelation (Neon Gold Records / Futures / Virgin)
6: Dominique Fils-Aimé, Live At The Montreal International Jazz Festival
6: Steve Marriner, Hear My Heart (Cordova Bay Records)
6: Empanadas Ilegales, Sancocho Trifásico (We Are Time)
6: Ambre Ciel,still, there is the sea (Gondwana Records)
13:Common Holly, Anything Glass ( Paper Bag Records)
13: CHXMERAS,Second Sight
13: Sandra Sutter, Shadow Stories
13: Mike Elliott, Let You Go (Busted Flat Records)
13: Steven Taetz, Fruit
13: Yawn, wish i could've
13: APACALDA,There's a Shadow in my Room and it isn't Mine
20: Sunshine Makers, The Sun Still Shines (Lovetown Records)
20: Celeigh Cardinal, Boundless Possibilities - Deluxe Edition
20: Meggie Lennon, Desire Days ( Mothland)
20: Drives the Common Man, Grief and Purpose (Red Music Rising)
20: U.S. Girls, Scratch It
25: The Souljazz Orchestra, Manifesto (vinyl)
27: Royale Lynn, Black Magic (Epitaph Records)
27: Penny & The Pits, Liquid Compactor (Forward Music)
11: Tami Neilson, Neon Cowgirl (Outside)
11: Hughes, S/T
11: Karma Glider, From the Haze of a Revved Up Youth (Mothland)
22: JP LeBlanc, All In My Blood--Je l’ai dans le sang ( Acadian Connection)
25: The Dirty Nil The Lash (Dine Alone Records)
1: Debby Friday, The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life (Royal Mountain)
22: Chambers Deslauriers, Time To Ride (40 Below Records)
29: The Beaches, No Hard Feelings (AWAL)
12: Camilla Sparksss, ICU Run (On The Camper Records)
