National Record Store Day

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Dates of National Record Store Day
2026 USAApr 18 USA Sat, Apr 18Observances Holiday 2025 USAApr 19 USA Sat, Apr 19Observances Holiday 2024 USAApr 20 USA Sat, Apr 20Observances Holiday 2023 USAApr 15 USA Sat, Apr 15Observances Holiday 2022 USAApr 23 USA Sat, Apr 23Observances Holiday
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Hundreds of independently owned music stores across the country will celebrate Record Store Day. On this day, all of these stores will simultaneously link and act as one with the purpose of celebrating the culture and unique place that they occupy both in their local communities and nationally.

It takes place on the third Saturday in April (except for Easter weekends). The date also moved during the pandemic.

This is a day for the people who make up the world of the record store—the staff, the customers, and the artists—to come together and celebrate the unique culture of a record store and the special role these independently owned stores play in their communities.

Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 at a gathering of independent record store owners and employees as a way to celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1400 independently-owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally” This national holiday was “founded officially by Michael Kurtz, Eric Leven, Amy Dorfman, Carrie Colliton, Brian Poehner, and Don Van Cleave”.

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