Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 25 July 2022

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