Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 24 October 2022

October 25, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

This week’s report is fairly normal and well within the parameters of what we’ve seen this year. Just wait until next week’s report when the first-week numbers for Taylor Swift’s Midnights album are in.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -10.5%
CD sales, -6.4%
Digital albums, -17.9%
Digital tracks, -17.1%
Vinyl LPs, -3.3%
On-demand audio streams, +13.6%

Week-over-week numbers:

Total album sales, +11.1%
CD sales, +21.3%
Digital albums, +1.0%
Digital tracks, +1.9%
Vinyl LPs, +7.4%
On-demand audio streams, +1.8% (2.447 billion streams in Canada last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate. Last weeks stats are here.

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