Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 15 August 2022
Like clockwork, the weekly Luminate report appeared in my inbox Monday evening. Here’s the state of the Canadian recorded music industry as of August 15, 2022.
Year-over-year comparisons:
- Total album sales, -10.2%
- CD sales, -4.7%
- Digital albums, -3.9%
- Digital tracks, -18.0%
- Vinyl LPs, -4.7%
- On-demand audio streams: +13.6%
Comparing last week to the week before:
- Total album sales, -9.3%
- CD sales, -11.3%
- Digital albums, -7.9%
- Digital tacks, -2.1%
- Vinyl LPs, -7.3%
- On-demand audio streams, +0.9% (2.358 billion streams in the country last week)