Record sales
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Record sales or music sales are activities related to selling music recordings through physical record shops or digital music stores. Record sales reached their peak in 1999, when 600 million people s
A Tower Records store in Nagoya, Japan, November 2023.
A record shop advertisement from 1943
A crowd buying records in the Dusty Groove store during the Record Store Day, April 2014.
Record shop
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A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music. Per the name, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records. But over the c
German record shop (1988)
A record shop in The Hague, Netherlands
Record shops also host musical performances, especially on Record Store Day: Magnapop are pictured here playing at an American store in 1994, with flyers for their album Hot Boxing visible in the background
Secondhand record store in Spain (2016)