Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 21 Nov 2022

November 23, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

With just a few short weeks left in the year, we’re getting an idea of how the recording music industry will finish 2022. Let’s start with by comparing last week with the same week last year.

Total album sales, -10.8%
CD sales, -7.9%
Digital albums, -17.7%
Digital tracks, -16.9%
Vinyl LPs, -2.0%
On-demand audio streams, +13.6%

Here’s a look at last week compared to the week before:

Total album sales, -0.6%
CD sales, +2.3%
Digital albums, -8.6%
Digital tracks, -1.6%
Vinyl LPs, +6.2%
On-demand audio streams, -1.4% (2.237 billion streams in the country last week(

All figures courtesy Luminate

Last week’s Canadian streaming stats

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