Trends · data through July 2026

Music Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 538 stores from 402 music stores chains in the United States. Rasputin Music grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Vintage Stock and Family Video.

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
402
Tracked stores
538
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 - +15.8%
2 V Vintage Stock logo Vintage Stock - +14.9%
3 F Family Video - +7.3%
4 C CD Warehouse - +2.9%
5 K KPOP NARA - -1.5%
6 B Bull Moose - -6.1%
7 T The Exchange - -7.3%
8 K Karma Records - -9.7%
9 F FYE logo FYE - -10.8%
10 M Music & Arts logo Music & Arts - -12.1%
  • The Exchange
  • FYE
  • Vintage Stock
  • The Record Exchange
  • Bull Moose
  • Graywhale Entertainment
  • Parkway Music
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • The Exchange (25)
  • FYE (20)
  • Vintage Stock (27)
  • The Record Exchange (2)
  • Bull Moose (10)
  • Graywhale Entertainment (2)
  • Parkway Music (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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

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