Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 27 June 2022

June 27, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

Have CD sales once against seen a ludicrous spike in sales this week? Let’s find out–but only after we look at the year-over-year statistics (i.e. last week compared to the same week in 2021.)

Total album sales, -10.8%
CD sales, -3.7%
Digital albums, -21.5%
Digital tracks, -19..5%
Vinyl LPs, -1.0%
On-demand audio streams, +13.3%

Now let’s look at last week compared to the week before.

Total album sales, -4.0%
CD sales, -13.2% (as compared to the weirdest of last week!)
Digital albums, +2.2% (Kate Bush/Stranger Things Effect?)
Digital tracks, +4.1% (ditto?)
Vinyl LPs, +12.9%
On-demand audio streams, -0.4% (2.498 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate. You can find last week’s stats here.

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