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Wilco made a surprise appearance on Record Store Day the Disc Exchange in Knoxville, Tennessee. The second annual Record Store Day was celebrated on Saturday, Apwith about 85 special releases and about 500 artist appearances, including those by Slayer, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Iron & Wine, The Stooges, MC5, Wilco, Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Erykah Badu, Talib Kweli, The Eagles of Death Metal. The first organized involvement by UK stores included Piccadilly Records ( Manchester), Jumbo Records ( Leeds), Resident ( Brighton), Sister Ray ( London), Rough Trade (London), Rapture ( Witney), Spillers ( Cardiff, Wales), and Avalanche Records ( Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland). Įnglish singer-songwriter Billy Bragg met Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz in an airport and agreed to help kick off Record Store Day in the United Kingdom with a special live appearance. Approximately 300 stores launched Record Store Day in the United States. There were approximately 10 special Record Store Day releases in the first year, including releases by Death Cab For Cutie, R.E.M., Stephen Malkmus, Vampire Weekend, The Teenagers, Black Kids, and Jason Mraz. Metallica opened the event at Rasputin Music in Mountain View, California, on April 19, 2008. Some shops during the COVID-19 pandemic pushed for a reformat of the event, even suggesting that the initiative risked damaging their businesses due to supply chain issues. Major labels have been accused of hijacking the event, and the policy of shops being obliged to buy on a no-return basis has been criticised, along with many of the limited releases being re-sold online within hours, at inflated prices. In the UK, the event has been criticised for catering to record collectors, rather than casual music fans, and delaying the release of non-affiliated records by monopolizing the capacity of record pressing plants. Record Store Day 2016 produced the biggest week of sales for the vinyl LP format since the introduction of SoundScan. In their 2015 Libera awards, the American Association of Independent Music awarded Record Store Day its 'Marketplace Ally' award. vinyl sales, and the 2014 edition resulted in independent retailers recording the highest percentage of physical album sales, since the SoundScan system was introduced in 1991. The 2013 event was credited with the highest U.S. Universal Music's sales manager, Marc Fayd’Herbe, has described Record Store Day as 'the single best thing that has ever happened' for independent record shops. of Record Stores, along with the Coalition of Independent Music Stores and the Alliance of Independent Media Stores. Record Store Day is managed on a day-to-day basis by the Dept. Although Record Store Day, the day, only occurs once a year, Record Store Day, the organization, provides promotions, marketing, and other opportunities for stores throughout the year, maintaining a website, social media and other means of promulgating its views about the value of independent record stores.

Record Store Day was founded in 2007 by Eric Levin, Michael Kurtz, Carrie Colliton, Amy Dorfman, Brian Poehner and Don Van Cleave, and is now celebrated at stores around the world, with hundreds of recording and other artists participating in the day by making special appearances, performances, meet and greets with their fans, the holding of fundraisers for community non-profits, and the issuing of special vinyl and CD releases along with other promotional offerings to mark the occasion.Įach store holds its own event for the day, to celebrate its place in its community.

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Originally pitched as an idea to create an event similar to Free Comic Book Day by Bull Moose Music's Chris Brown and Criminal Record's Eric Levin, the concept for Record Store Day was created during a brainstorming session at a meeting of independent record store owners in Baltimore, Maryland. Plaque commemorating the creation of Record Store Day