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.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
H
HMV
|
- | -12.1% |
- HMV
- Nottingham City Guitars
- DICE
- Sokollab London
- Guitarguitar
- West End DJ
- Absolute Music
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
190 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.
- HMV (122)
- Nottingham City Guitars (1)
- DICE (1)
- Sokollab London (1)
- Guitarguitar (2)
- West End DJ (1)
- Absolute Music (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
-
1
H
- 2 T The Music Box 3
-
3
G
Guitarguitar 2
- 4 S Sholing Video Film Library 1
- 5 V Vinyl Villains 1
- 6 R Revolver Records 1
- 7 L Local Place 1
- 8 S Sound Knowledge 1
- 9 P Punjabi Roots 1
- 10 H Horsham Music 1
- 11 V Visual Vibes 1
- 12 W Westside Video 1
- 13 S Sister Ray 1
- 14 R Rise Cheltenham 1
- 15 S Street Video 1
- 16 U Up North Records 1
- 17 R Raves From The Grave 1
- 18 D Deeside Vinyl 1
- 19 N Nottingham City Guitars 1
- 20 C Chapter 22 Records 1
- 21 B Blockbuster 1
- 22 C Chaotic Waves Entertainment 1
- 23 W W Smith and Sons 1
- 24 P PMT House of Rock 1
- 25 P Pickwick Music 1
- 26 I Islington Music 1
- 27 S Spin The Black Circle 1
-
28
R
Rough Trade Bristol 1
-
29
N
Next Door Records Two 1
- 30 B Big Mamma 1
- 31 M Missing Records 1
- 32 M Music Nostalgia 1
- 33 U Uptown Records 1
- 34 S Spun Records 1
- 35 N News & Views 1
-
36
D
DICE 1
- 37 S Sokollab London 1
-
38
W
West End DJ 1
- 39 A Absolute Music 1
-
40
C
Crash Records 1
- 41 W Wax & Beans 1
- 42 R Resident Records 1
- 43 O Olympic Studios Records 1
- 44 S Soojib 1
- 45 K Krishna Pan Centre 1
- 46 H Hereford Music Shop 1
- 47 I Intense Records 1
- 48 B Bending Sound Records 1
- 49 P Planet Wax 1
- 50 F Fopp 1
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