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. Music & Arts and Guitar Center sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Music & Arts | - | +8.0% |
| 2 | Guitar Center | - | -9.8% |
| 3 | Woodsy's Music | - | -26.0% |
- Guitar Center
- Music Go Round
- Shake It Records
- Everybody's Records
- Used Kids Records
- Plaid Room Records
- Magnolia Thunderpussy
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
115 tracked store locations in Ohio. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 115 stores (27%); 80 of the 87 tracked chains have a single store here. 0.8% of the tracked retail stores here are music stores, against 0.7% across the United States.
- Guitar Center (8)
- Music Go Round (6)
- Shake It Records (1)
- Everybody's Records (1)
- Used Kids Records (1)
- Plaid Room Records (1)
- Magnolia Thunderpussy (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Music & Arts 9
- 2 Guitar Center 8
- 3 Music Go Round 6
- 4 Rettig Music 5
- 5 Woodsy's Music 3
- 6 Mehas Music Stores 2
- 7 Sam Ash Music Stores 2
- 8 Blind Rage Records 1
- 9 State Street Records 1
- 10 Torn Light Records 1
- 11 New 2 U Vinyl & Vintage 1
- 12 Cleveland Rocks Shop 1
- 13 Richard's Music 1
- 14 Hollow Bone Records 1
- 15 Blue Arrow Records 1
- 16 Bluegrass Music Shop 1
- 17 Fat Hippy Records 1
- 18 Prodigy Music Co 1
- 19 Celina Music Store 1
- 20 Fat Dog Vinyl 1
- 21 The Kutt Records 1
- 22 Record Connection 1
- 23 Broken Melody Records 1
- 24 Skeleton Dust Records 1
- 25 Blue Eagle Music 1
- 26 Catacomb Records 1
- 27 Stearns Violins 1
- 28 The Vinyl Groove Records 1
- 29 The Vinyl Groove 1
- 30 Buddy Roger's Music Showroom 1
- 31 Under The Surface Records 1
- 32 Sound Ideas 1
- 33 Legend Records 1
- 34 Lester's Rock N Roll Shop 1
- 35 Erie St Vinyl 1
- 36 Bent Crayon Records 1
- 37 BBB Music Center 1
- 38 Hanson Records 1
- 39 Falls Music School 1
- 40 Larry's Music Center 1
- 41 Time Traveler Records 1
- 42 Cyclebreakers Records and Tapes 1
- 43 22 mrkt Records 1
- 44 Elizabeth's Records 1
- 45 DoublePlay Records & Retro 1
- 46 Now Spinning Records 1
- 47 Goat Records 1
- 48 Resignation Records 1
- 49 Feel It Record Shop 1
- 50 Apollo Records 1
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