Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 04 April 2022

April 4, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

This week’s report marks the end of 25% of 2022. Let’s start with the year-over-year numbers.

Total album sales, -9.0%
CD sales, +1.4%
Digital albums, -20.7%
Digital tracks, -20.9%
Vinyl LPs, -2.6%
On-demand audio streams, +12.8%

Now let’s compare last week with the one previous.

Total album sales, -14.0%
CD sales, -23.2%
Digital albums, +9.3%
Digital tracks, +4.5%
Vinyl LPs, -24.8%
On-demand audio streams, 0.0% (2.294 billion streams in the country last week).

All figures courtesy Luminate.xyz

Last week’s stats are here.

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