Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 13 June 2022

June 13, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

What’s been going on with Canadian music sales and streaming over the past week? Let’s get caught up, staring with comparing last week to the same week in 2021.

Total album sales, -11.3%
CD sales, -4.5%
Digital albums, -21.9%
Digital tracks, -20.1%
Vinyl LPs, -0.5%
On-demand audio streams, +13.2%

Now let’s focus on last week as compared to the week before.

Total album sales -21.0%
CD sales, -42.5% (What? Wow. That’s wild.)
Digital albums, +8.9%
Digital tracks, +3.2% (I wonder how much of that was Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill?”)
Vinyl LPs, -18.1%
On-demand audio streams, +0.4% (2.392 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy of Luminate.

Last weeks stats.

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