Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 05 September 2022

September 7, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Okay, we’re a day late, but Monday was a holiday. Here’s how the Canadian recorded music is fairing as it heads into the fall season.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -10.6%
CD sales, -5.0%
Digital albums, -18.4%
Digital tracks, -17,4%
Vinyl LPs, -2.8%
On-demand audio streams, +13.7%

Now let’s compare last week with the week before:

Total album sales, -24.5% (Wow. What happened there?)
CD sales, -41.5% (Yikes)
Digital albums, -6,4%
Digital tracks, +4.9%
Vinyl LPs, -20.0% (Whoa.)
On-demand audio streams, +0.8% (2.191 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 29 August 2022

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