Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 14 March 2022

March 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

With the end of Q1 in sight, how’s the Canadian recorded music industry doing so far in 2022? Let’s compare last week with the same week in 2021.

Total album sales, -8.9%
CD sales, +2.2%
Digital albums, -19.7%
Digital tracks, -21.1%
Vinyl LPs, -4.6%
On-demand audio streams, +13.2%

Now let’s check the progress through 2022. This compares last week to the week before.

Total album sales, +0.2%
CD sales, -3.7%
Digital albums, +5.7%
Digital tracks, 0.0%
Vinyl LPs, -1.8%
On-demand audio streams, +0.8% (2.096 billion streams in the country last week)

All data courtesy MRC.

Last week’s numbers.

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