Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats, 06 Feb 2023

February 7, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

The first full month of 2023 is in the books for the Canadian recorded music industry. Here’s how things look one-twelfth the way through the year, starting with comparing last week to the same week in 2022.

Total album sales, -8.8%
CDs, -6.9%
Digital albums, -19,6%
Digital tracks, -7.3%
Vinyl LPs, +8.2%
On-demand audio streams, +18.2%

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

Total album sales, +1.9%
CDs, +5.4%
Digital albums, -0.1%
Digital tracks, -3.8%
Vinyl LPs, -0.9%
On-demand audio streams, +0.3% (2.372 billion streams in Canada last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate. Last weeks stats are here,

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