Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 March 2022
This marks another change in the name of the company that provides us with weekly music sales and streaming stats. First, it was BDS/SoundScan. Then it was MRC. Now the company has been rebranded as Luminate Data. New name, same sort of statistical analysis.
Year-over-year comparisons.
- Total album sales, -9.7%
- CD sales, +0.7%
- Digital albums, -20.1%
- Digital tracks, -21.0%
- Vinyl LPs, -5.7%
- On-demand audio streams, +13.1%
Week-over-week numbers:
- Total album sales, -1.9%
- CD sales, +3.4%
- Digital albums, -7.5%
- Digital tracks, -1.3%
- Vinyl LPs, -3.3%
- On-demand audio streams, +0.6% (2.108 billion streams in the country last week).
