Record Store Day 2025: Get To Know Its Vinyl-Buying U.S. Audience

In its 18th year of celebrating independent record stores and vinyl music, Record Store Day continued to draw enthusiastic crowds the week of April 12.
The Growth of Vinyl and the Impact of Independent Record Stores on Vinyl Sales

While many in our industry focus on streaming consumption and the billions of streams that occur weekly, there is another consumption format that has shown growth year after year for the last 18 years straight: vinyl album sales.