Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 10 October 2022

October 11, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

A bit late–hey, yesterday was Thanksgiving, so it can be forgiven–but here we are with the weekly recorded music industry sales stats courtesy Luminate.

Year-over-year trending:

Total album sales, -10.8%
CD sales, -6.5%
Digital albums, -18.4%
Digital tracks, -17.1%
Vinyl LPs, -6.5%
On-demand audio streams, +13.7%

Week-over-week comparisons:

Total album sales, +2.0%
CD sales, -1.3%
Digital albums, +1.4%
Digital tracks, -3.4%
Vinyl LPs, +10.4%
On-demand audio streams, +1.6% (2.455 billion streams in the country last week)

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