Music Industry

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 04 July 2022

This week’s report from Luminate wraps things up for the first half of 2022. Where are we at the halfway mark compared to this point last year?

  • Total album sales, -10.4%
  • CD sales, -3.5%
  • Digital albums, -21.1%
  • Digital tracks, -19.4%
  • Vinyl LPs, -0.3%
  • On-demand audio streaming, +13.5%

And here’s how things tracked week-to-week.

  • Total album sales, +14.1%
  • CD sales, +6.6%
  • Digital albums, +13.2%
  • Digital tracks, +2.7%
  • Vinyl LPs, +33.3%
  • On-demand audio streaming, +0.3% (2.411 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

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