Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 17 October 2022

October 18, 2022October 19, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

The 41st week of 2022 looked like this to the Canadian recorded music industry.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -10.7%
CD sales, -6.6%
Digital album sales, –18.1%
Digital tracks, -17.1%
Vinyl LPs, -3.4%
On-demand audio streams, +13.7%

Comparing last week to the week before:

Total album sales, +1.5%
CD sales, -1.5%
Digital albums, +7.6%
Digital tracks, +0.1%
Vinyl LPs, -1.8%
On-demand audio streams, -2.1% (2.208 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate. Last week’s Canadian music sales and streaming stats.

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