Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 10 January 2022

January 11, 2022January 11, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Here are the Canadian music sales and streaming stats for Week One of 2022, starting with the year-over-year comparisons.

Total album sales, +5.8%
CD sales, +36.9% (NOT a typo!)
Digital albums, -19.3%
Digital tracks, -17.8%
Vinyl LPs, +17.6%
On-demand audio streams, +11.6%

Now let’s compare last week to the week before.

Total album sales, -16.4%
CD sales, -26.4%
Digital albums, -16.2%
Digital tracks, -13.9%
Vinyl LPs, +4.4%
On-demand audio streams, -4.9% (1.983 billion streams in the country last week)

All data courtesy MRC.

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