With of the growing popularity of digital music downloads in the mid-2000s, physical single sales in Canada declined further, and in March 2006, Billboard reported that most of the then-recent number-one singles on the Canadian Singles Chart had sold less than 200 copies.
Due to the increasing popularity of digital music downloads in the mid-2000s, physical single sales in Canada continued to drop, and by March 2006, Billboard revealed that most of the recently topped singles on the Canadian Singles Chart had sold fewer than 200 copies.