Growth
HMV against its category
The biggest tracked UK 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 HMV's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
H
HMV
|
-12.1% |
| 2 | N Nottingham City Guitars | - |
| 3 |
D
DICE
|
- |
| 4 | S Sokollab London | - |
| 5 |
G
Guitarguitar
|
+10.9% |
| 6 |
W
West End DJ
|
- |
| 7 | A Absolute Music | -13.1% |
| 8 |
C
Crash Records
|
+6.3% |
| 9 | W Wax & Beans | - |
| 10 | R Resident Records | -1.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
122 tracked HMV locations across 12 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.
Tracked stores by region
- South East 22
- Scotland 15
- East of England 14
- North West 13
- Yorkshire and The Humber 13
- South West 11
- West Midlands 11
- East Midlands 7
- London 7
- North East 5
- Wales 3
- Northern Ireland 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at HMV
Tracked chains HMV customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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