Music Industry

Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats (10 July 2023)

Here’s where Luminate says things stand with the Canadian recorded music industry as of today starting with a comparison of last week to the same week in 2022.

  • Total album sales, -4.7%
  • CD sales, -8.0%
  • Digital albums, -13.1%
  • Digital tracks, -10.9%
  • Vinyl LPs, +19.3%
  • On-demand audio streams, +15.7%

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

  • Total album sales, +12.5%
  • CD sales, +17.6%
  • Digital albums, -1.0%
  • Digital tracks, -0.5%
  • Vinyl LPs, 24.6%
  • On-demand audio streams, -0.4% (2.496 billion streams in the country last week)

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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