Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 25 July 2022

July 26, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

More than halfway through the year already. Here’s what’s happening with the Canadian recorded music industry starting with comparing last week to the same week in 2021.

Total album sales, -10.6%
CD sales, -4.6%
Digital albums, -19.8%
Digital tracks, -18.7%
Vinyl LPs, -2.4%
On-demand audio streams, +13.4%

Now let’s compare last week to the week before.

Total album sales, +0.3%
CD sales, -5.4%
Digital albums, +5.5%
Digital tracks, +6.7%
Vinyl LPs, +5.5%
On-demand audio streams, +0.8% (2.187 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate

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