Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats: 29 Aug 2022

August 30, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments

While the recorded music industry’s focus is now on fall releases, we still need to keep track of how things are progressing through the waning days of summer. Here’s a look at where sales and streaming stand as of this week.

Year-over-year comparisons:

Total album sales, -9.9%
CD sales, -4.7%
Digital albums, -18.3%
Digital tracks, -17.7%
Vinyl LPs, -2.3%
On-demand audio streams, +13.7%

Week-over-week numbers:

Total album sales, +0;6%
CD sales, -1.7%
Digital albums, +0.7%
Digital tracks, +1.1%
Vinyl LPs, +6.3%
On-demand audio streams, -0.8% (2.174 billion streams in the country last week)

All figures courtesy Luminate.

Last weeks Weekly Canadian music sales and streaming stats are here.

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