That made celebrating Record Store Day tricky, but some innovation went a long way. While the store could reopen last June, there were still restrictions in place. “It was the most devastating day I’ve ever had – to let these people go.”Ĭustomers wait in line to enter Chicago's Shuga Records on Record Store Day on April 13, 2019. “My celebration essentially was popping a bottle of Champagne and furloughing every employee I had, except for two,” he said. He said his store’s 40th anniversary fell the day before New Jersey shut down nonessential services in March 2020. Jon Lambert, the owner of Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton, New Jersey, told CNN he has been celebrating every day since his store was able to reopen in June 2020. June’s Record Store Day drop came as many stores were in the process of reopening in alignment with states’ relaxing restrictions. The famous artists behind history's greatest album coversīusiness owners told CNN while they were able to shift to online sales during the lockdown, there’s nothing like physically going to the store and getting your hands on a record. New Order, "Power, Corruption & Lies." Featuring 'A Basket of Roses' by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1890 Peter Saville/Fantin-Latour/Rizzoli
Last year, vinyl sales outpaced CD sales for the first time since the 1980s. That’s despite an overall decline in album sales, which includes digital and CDs, compared to numbers from 2019. Vinyl sales grew by 46% to 27.5 million copies sold in 2020, MRC Data told CNN. Record Store Day was split up into two drops this time – June 12 and July 17.ĭespite many record stores having to shut down in 2020, last year was the largest year for vinyl album sales in the past three decades, according to MRC Data, which has been electronically tracking sales since 1991. This year, celebrations have fewer restrictions, but still look different from those pre-pandemic. Record Store Day was split up into three “drops” in August, September and October instead of the typical one-day celebration that happens earlier in the year. It often features performances, cookouts and artist meet-and-greets.īecause of the pandemic, celebrations looked a lot different last year. The first Record Store Day was on April 19, 2008, and has since been a single day devoted to exclusive vinyl releases only available at participating record stores. Record Store Day is a global event to “celebrate and spread the word about the unique culture surrounding nearly 1,400 independently owned record stores in the US and thousands of similar stores internationally,” according to organizers. This Saturday, the second of two Record Store Days being held this year, offers a sign of hope for independent businesses trying to recover from some of the darkest days they have seen.
Vinyl may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the impacts of the pandemic, but for some business owners, it’s everything.
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The touch associated with browsing at a record store is no exception – clicking a download button can’t match the feeling of walking into a shop with other music fans, flipping through album covers and holding a new disc. Of all the aspects of normality Americans missed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, physical touch has been a common theme.
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