Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 27 March 2023

March 27, 2023March 27, 2023 Alan Cross 0 Comments

It’s the first sales/streaming report of the spring. How are things going?

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -7.5%
CD sales, -10.4%
Digital albums, -14.3%
Digital tracks, -7,8%
Vinyl LPs, +12.6%
On-demand audio streams, +1.2%

Week-over-week comparisons:

Total album sales, -8.3%
CD sales, -10.7%
Digital albums, -1.6%
Digital tracks, +1.1%
Vinyl LPs, -13.3%
On-demand audio streams, +1.2% (2.427 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

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