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.
The growing trend of digital music downloads in the mid-2000s resulted in a further decline of physical single sales in Canada, with Billboard reporting in March 2006 that many of the recent chart-topping singles had sold less than 200 units.