Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 07 November 2022

November 8, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Is Taylor Swift still having a meaningful impact on Canadian sales and streaming statistics? Let’s check.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -10.2%
Physical albums, -5.2%
CD sales, -6,8%
Digital albums, -17.5%
Digital tracks, -17,0%
Vinyl LPs, -1.8%
On-demand audio streams, +13.7%

Now let’s look at last week compared to the week before:

Total album sales, -22.4% (That’s the dip from Tay-Tay’s first-week sales)
CD sales, -15.%
Digital albums, -16.8%
Digital tracks, -4.0%
Vinyl LPs, -40.6% (Whoa!)
On-demand audio streams, -1.6% (2.245 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

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