Trends · data through August 2026

Music Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 525 stores from 404 music stores chains in the United States. Rasputin Music grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Vintage Stock and CD Warehouse.

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
404
Tracked stores
525
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked music stores 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. Rasputin Music and Vintage Stock sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Rasputin Music - +19.3%
2 V Vintage Stock logo Vintage Stock - +13.9%
3 C CD Warehouse - +1.9%
4 F Family Video - +0.9%
5 K KPOP NARA - -2.6%
6 B Bull Moose - -6.9%
7 T The Exchange - -8.4%
8 K Karma Records - -10.8%
9 M Music & Arts logo Music & Arts - -13.3%
  • The Exchange
  • Vintage Stock
  • The Record Exchange
  • Bull Moose
  • Graywhale Entertainment
  • Parkway Music
  • KPOP NARA
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

525 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • The Exchange (25)
  • Vintage Stock (27)
  • The Record Exchange (2)
  • Bull Moose (10)
  • Graywhale Entertainment (2)
  • Parkway Music (1)
  • KPOP NARA (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 V Vintage Stock logo Vintage Stock 27
  • 2 T The Exchange 25
  • 3 Z Zia Records logo Zia Records 12
  • 4 B Bull Moose 10
  • 5 M Music & Arts logo Music & Arts 8
  • 6 F Family Video 7
  • 7 C CD Warehouse 5
  • 8 K KPOP NARA 5
  • 9 R Rasputin Music 4
  • 10 K Karma Records 3
  • 11 Y Your Media Exchange 2
  • 12 E Everyday Music 2
  • 13 G Gallery of Sound 2
  • 14 T Ted Brown Music logo Ted Brown Music 2
  • 15 M Music City 2
  • 16 D Dunkley Music logo Dunkley Music 2
  • 17 P Plan 9 Music 2
  • 18 M Modern Sounds Vinyl and Music 2
  • 19 S Sound Exchange 2
  • 20 Z Zia Record Exchange logo Zia Record Exchange 2
  • 21 A Amoeba Music 2
  • 22 S Silver Platters 2
  • 23 D Doo Wop Shop logo Doo Wop Shop 2
  • 24 D Dearborn Music logo Dearborn Music 2
  • 25 C CD Exchange 2
  • 26 G Guestroom Records 2
  • 27 D Dorsey Music 2
  • 28 T The Record Exchange 2
  • 29 G Graywhale Entertainment 2
  • 30 Z ZT Records logo ZT Records 2
  • 31 B Brighton Music Center logo Brighton Music Center 2
  • 32 V Vinyl Cup Records 2
  • 33 T The Sound Garden 2
  • 34 P Parkway Music 1
  • 35 S Static Tape 1
  • 36 M Main Street Music & Sound 1
  • 37 J Joint Custody 1
  • 38 B Buckdancer's Choice Music 1
  • 39 G Grantski Records logo Grantski Records 1
  • 40 B Bob's Guitars 1
  • 41 H Hardy Boys Records 1
  • 42 H Harper's Music Store 1
  • 43 D Decatur CD 1
  • 44 M Mehas Music Stores logo Mehas Music Stores 1
  • 45 R Rhino Records 1
  • 46 T The Long Ear 1
  • 47 A Asylum Sights & Sounds Outlet 1
  • 48 S Sub Pop 1
  • 49 B Black & Read Music, Books & Games 1
  • 50 K KPOP STORE in USA 1

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