Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 08 Aug 2022
We’re a little more than halfway through the summer. What’s the state of music sales and streaming in Canada in 2022 so far? Let’s take a look at the latest figures from Luminate.
Year-over-year comparisons:
- Total album sales, -10.1%
- CD sales, -4.4%
- Digital albums, -19.1%
- Digital tracks, -18.1%
- Vinyl LPs, -2.1%
- On-demand audio streams, +13.6%
Let’s now compare last week to the week before. Note the Beyonce effect.
- Total album sales, +3.6%
- CD sales, +3.0%
- Digital albums, +8.4%
- Digital tracks, -3.3%
- Vinyl LPs, +9.5%
- On-demand audio streams, -1.3% (2.150 billion streams in the country last week)
