Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 22 August 2022

As summer winds down, the Canadian recorded music industry is starting to get a clearer picture of how things have gone this season. Here are the latest figures courtesy Luminate.

Year-over-year statistics:

• Total album sales, -10.0%
• CD sales, -4.6%
• Digital albums, -18.6%
• Digital tracks, -17,9%
• Vinyl LPs, -2.1%
• On-demand audio streams, +13.7%

Now comparing last week to the week before:

• Total album sales, +4.8%
• CD sales, +7.6%
• Digital albums, +3.2%
• Digital tracks, -1.0%
• Vinyl LPs, +1.5%
• On-demand audio streams, +1.0% (2.191 billion streams in the country last week)