Music Industry

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 10 April 2023

Where’s the Canadian recorded music at this week? Let’s check, starting with comparing things last week to the same week in 2022.

  • Total album sales, -5.4%
  • CD sales, -8.4%
  • Digital albums, -13.5%
  • Digital tracks, -8.5%
  • Vinyl LPs, +17.7%
  • On-demand audio streams. +16.0%

Here’s last week compared to the week before.

  • Total album sales, -+6.4%
  • CD sales, +6.7%
  • Digital albums, +1.1%
  • Digital tracks, 0.0%
  • Vinyl LPs, ++13.6%
  • On-demand audio streams. +0.4% (2.454 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate. Last weeks stats are here.

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