Record Store Of The Day campaign launches to support independent record shops

Celebrating your favourite music HQs by shopping remotely.

A new campaign called Record Store Of The Day has launched, to support independent record shops during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Read more: How record shops are getting vinyl to you during the Coronavirus pandemic

The initiative urges people to buy records from their favourite shop online, as well as via social media and telephone orders, while physical browsing is not possible.

Running until at least 30th April 2020, the campaign is backed by artists and labels including Floating Points, Alex Nut, Erased Tapes, Eglo, Jazz and Re:freshed; in addition to the BPI, AIM, ERA and Record Store Day.

Record Store Of The Day is helmed by UK music distributors Cargo, Forte Distribution, Kudos Records, Little Amber Fish, Nova Distribution, The Orchard, PIAS, Proper Music Distribution, Republic of Music, Shellshock, SRD and Trapeze.

In addition to supporting shops online, the campaign is asking for people to share a picture or name of a record that you love on Twitter, Facebook and/or Instagram, with the @ of the shop where you purchased it, along with the hashtag #recordstoreoftheday.

Head here for additional info, and check out the list of participating stores in full below, with more to be announced.

Participating shops

Wax and Beans – Bury

Underground Solu’shn – Edinburgh

Sounds of the Universe – London

Empire Records – St Albans

Black Circle Records – Leighton Buzzard

Spinning Discs Sheffield – Sheffield

Up North Records – Chester

Soul Brother Records – Putney, London

Derrick’s Music – Swansea

Off the Beaten Tracks – Louth, Lincolnshire

Sister Ray – London

Record Corner – Godalming

World of Echo – London

Intense Records – Chelmsford

Fish Records – Stone, Staffordshire

Reflex – Newcastle upon Tyne

Transmission Records – Margate

The Vinyl Whistle – Headingley

Grind and Groove Records – Keighley

Sound Records – Stroud

Seismic Records – Leamington Spa

Resident – Brighton

Lion Coffee + Records – London

Red House Records – Swindon

The Record Store – Ashford

Vintage & Vinyl – Folkestone

HiFix – Coventry

Flashback Records – London