Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 March 2022

March 22, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

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).

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