Growth
Guitar Center against its category
The biggest tracked US music store chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Guitar Center's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guitar Center | -3.7% |
| 2 | Music Go Round | +4.7% |
| 3 | Sweetwater | -31.8% |
| 4 | Music & Arts | -13.7% |
| 5 | Zia Records | - |
| 6 | The Record Exchange | - |
| 7 | Bull Moose | +9.1% |
| 8 | John Keal Music Company | +5.9% |
| 9 | Paige's Music | +12.6% |
| 10 | Zia Record Exchange | -19.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
311 tracked Guitar Center locations across 47 US states. California, Texas, and Florida hold 32% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 42
- Texas 36
- Florida 22
- Illinois 14
- New York 13
- Georgia 10
- North Carolina 10
- Arizona 9
- Massachusetts 9
- Michigan 9
- Pennsylvania 9
- New Jersey 8
- Ohio 8
- Tennessee 8
- Washington 8
- Colorado 7
- Virginia 7
- Oregon 6
- Connecticut 5
- Indiana 5
- Maryland 5
- Missouri 5
- South Carolina 5
- Alabama 4
- Louisiana 4
- Minnesota 4
- Iowa 3
- Kentucky 3
- New Hampshire 3
- Nevada 3
- Oklahoma 3
- Utah 3
- Wisconsin 3
- Arkansas 2
- Kansas 2
- Nebraska 2
- New Mexico 2
- Alaska 1
- Delaware 1
- Hawaii 1
- Idaho 1
- Maine 1
- Mississippi 1
- North Dakota 1
- Rhode Island 1
- South Dakota 1
- Vermont 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Guitar Center
Tracked chains Guitar Center customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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