Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 28 November 2022

November 28, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1 min read

A little more than month left in the fiscal year for the recorded music industry. We’re getting a clearer idea of where 2022 will end up. Let’s start with comparing last week to the same week in 2022.

Total albums sales -12.1%
CD sales, -10.1%
Digital albums, -18.4%
Digital tracks, -16.9%
Vinyl LPs, –3.1%
On-demand audio streams, +13.5%

Here are the numbers from last week compared to the week before.

Total album sales, +11.7%
CD sales, +12.3%
Digital albums, +19.9%
Digital tracks, -0.7%
Vinyl LPs, +19.9%
On-demand audio streams, +0.7% (2.251 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy of Luminate. Last week’s Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats

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