Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 12 September 2022

September 13, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

With a lack of big-name releases, both music sales and on-demand streaming numbers are down. Will things recover in the fourth quarter? We’ll see.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -10.8%
CD sales, -6.2%
Digital albums, –18.5%
Digital tracks, -17.3%
Vinyl LPs, -3.3%
On-demand audio streams, +13.6%

Week-over-week comparisons:

Total album sales, +20.8% (That still means only 87,398 actual albums were sold in the country last week)
CD sales, +57.0% (the week before was dismal)
Digital albums, +4.3%
Digital tracks, -6.4% (streaming continues to kill individual track sales)
Vinyl LP2, -3.5%
On-demand audio streams, -0.7% (2.175 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

Last week’s Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats

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