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 |
G
Guitar Center
|
-2.8% |
| 2 |
S
Sweetwater
|
-20.1% |
| 3 |
M
Music Go Round
|
-1.8% |
| 4 |
M
Music & Arts
|
-12.9% |
| 5 |
Z
Zia Records
|
- |
| 6 | B Bull Moose | +9.0% |
| 7 | T The Record Exchange | - |
| 8 |
P
Paige's Music
|
+10.8% |
| 9 | P Parkway Music | +14.7% |
| 10 | G Graywhale Entertainment | - |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
312 tracked Guitar Center locations across 47 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- California 42
- Texas 36
- Florida 22
- Illinois 14
- New York 13
- Georgia 10
- Massachusetts 10
- North Carolina 10
- Arizona 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.
A
Atomic Music
94
S
Sweetwater
23
Sweetwater
23
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