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 collecting is the hobby of collecting sound recordings, usually of music, but sometimes poetry, reading, historical speeches, and ambient noises. Although the typical focus is on vinyl records,
A shelf of collected vinyl records
A 1920s Edison Records Diamond Disc label, early 1920s
Boxes of vinyl records in a second-hand shop