Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 17 April 2023

April 17, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

Luminate tracks music consumption in countries around the world. Here’s what Canada consumed last week.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -5.9% (Add in streaming and downloads: +15.0%)
CD sales, -9.2%
Digital albums, -13.5%
Digital tracks, -8.8%
Vinyl LPs, +16.7%
On-demand audio streams, +15.8%

Comparing last week to the week before:

Total albums sales, -12.0%
CD sales, -17.6%
Digital albums, -10.9%
Digital tracks, -3.0%
Vinyl LPs, -19.6%
On-demand audio streams, -0.8% (2.433 billion streams in the country last week)

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