Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 February 2022

February 21, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

How are things going with the Canadian recorded music industry this week? Let’s start by comparing last week to the same week in 2021.

Total albums sales, 05.1%
CD sales, +13.2%
Digital albums, -19.5%
Digital tracks, -20.5%
Vinyl LPs, -2.3%
On-demand audio streams, +13.8%

Now let’s compare last week to the week before.

Total album sales, -6.4%
CD sales, -4.5%
Digital albumss, -5.9%
Digital tracks, +2.9%
Vinyl LPs, -12/1%
On-demand audio streams, +0.7 % (2.274 billion streams in the country last week. I think that’s a new record).

All figures courtesy of MRC Data

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