Trends · data through September 2026

Music Stores in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 39 stores from 23 music store chains in Minnesota. Guitar Center grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Schmitt Music and Cheapo Records.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
23
Tracked stores
39
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked music store chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Guitar Center and Schmitt Music sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Guitar Center logo Guitar Center - +5.6%
2 S Schmitt Music logo Schmitt Music - -3.0%
3 C Cheapo Records ▲1 -3.7%
4 D Down In The Valley ▼1 -26.5%
  • Schmitt Music
  • Guitar Center
  • Electric Fetus
  • Cheapo Records
  • Down In The Valley
  • Music Go Round
  • Agharta Records
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

39 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Schmitt Music (7)
  • Guitar Center (4)
  • Electric Fetus (1)
  • Cheapo Records (4)
  • Down In The Valley (3)
  • Music Go Round (3)
  • Agharta Records (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 S Schmitt Music logo Schmitt Music 7
  • 2 G Guitar Center logo Guitar Center 4
  • 3 C Cheapo Records 4
  • 4 D Down In The Valley 3
  • 5 M Music Go Round logo Music Go Round 3
  • 6 T Timeframes 1
  • 7 C Capitol Guitars 1
  • 8 L LaVonne Waggoner Music Vintage Guitars 1
  • 9 F Fly Vintage & Vinyl 1
  • 10 V Verbena Vinyl 1
  • 11 I Indie Earth 1
  • 12 A Aspen Video and Vending 1
  • 13 R Rochester Records 1
  • 14 E Eclipse Records 1
  • 15 R Roadrunner Records 1
  • 16 V Vyntage Vinyl 1
  • 17 K Know Name Records 1
  • 18 R River City Records & Books 1
  • 19 B Barely Brothers Records 1
  • 20 T Tune Town 1
  • 21 C Cadenza Music 1
  • 22 A Agharta Records 1
  • 23 E Electric Fetus logo Electric Fetus 1

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