National Record Store Day

Category: Culture
National Record Store Day around the world in 2026
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About 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
Summary
Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Record Store Day

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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