Record Store Day 2014 (April 19)

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

I don't think a thread has been made yet. 2014 boasts the biggest list yet for Record Store Day although there was nothing essential in it for me, I still got a few things.

Share your purchases from today!

I got:
-Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better 7"
-Broken bells - holding on for life 12"
-Fun - point and light 10"
-Kings of Leon - wait for me 7"
-Mazzy Star - I'm Less Here 7"
-Ray lamontagne - supernova 7"

I didn't see but will still try to pick up:
-Bastille - of the night 10"
-Coldplay - midnight 7"
-Regina Spektor - you've got time 7"

[Deleted]

• Dolly Parton, "Blue Smoke" / "Home" (7-inch)

[Push The Button]

I'm so pissed that the "Heartbreak Dream" 7" was a West Coast exclusive.

[Kurt]

Apr 19, 2014 23:37:35 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

I'm so pissed that the "Heartbreak Dream" 7" was a West Coast exclusive.

I saw a couple people from New England get it, and she performed and signed copies in NYC. ???
ETA: If you have a Bull Moose near you, I think they're supposed to have them in stock!

Anyway, I sadly didn't get anything this year since I'm not on campus anymore and there's no record store in town, not to mention I was busy this morning anyway. :( Things I may hunt for online or in-store later if I can: Jaded Incorporated, Betty Who, Paramore, Bleachers, Coldplay, HAIM, Neon Trees, Lake Street Dive

[newpower]

I got Apollo by Disclosure and Live Versions by Tame Impala. The Tame Impala vinyl is great: transparent green.

[ListenToItTwice]

I really tried but I didn't see anything worth getting in the store I went into :/ All of your hauls sound great, though

[Adam (UTR)]

From Hits Daily Double:

The latest edition of Record Store Day, which took place on Saturday (4/19), once again achieved new sales highs—which nicely supplemented the other kinds of highs enjoyed by record-store customers. Let’s hear what a bunch of retailers have to say, shall we?

"It just gets better every year," says Terry Currier of Portland-based Music Millennium. "It was a monster for us. I was scared that we wouldn’t be able to beat last year’s numbers, but we were up 26%. It was like two-and-a-half weeks of sales in one day."

Said Alayna Alderman of Rochester’s Record Archive, "I feel like a broken record repeating myself year after year, but Record Store Day 2014 was the most incredible day in our stores 39-year history." She was also up 26%.

"We thought there was no way that we could be last year phenomenal sales, but we somehow did," notes RSD co-founder Michael Kurtz. "On average, stores are reporting an increase of sales of 20% or more above last year’s sales."

Dilyn Radakovitz of Sacramento’s Dimple Records provided an exclamation point, noting that his outlet was up a whopping 60% over 2013. "Just to put a little perspective on it, we went back a few years, and from 2010 through 2014, our sales are up 176%."

John Kunz of Austin’s Waterloo Records echoed many, saying that he had 300 people in line and doubled that number when he opened his doors. "It was the biggest single-day sales in the 32-year history of the store," he said, "In my all of my years in retail, the biggest sales days were always either the twenty-third of December or the Saturday before Christmas. Last year’s Record Store Day broke that trend, and this year we were still up another 12%."

Newbury Comics’ Carl Mello tells us that the chain’s 29 stores were up 8% on average, with some seeing double-digit gains.

Turntable sales were brisk across the board, as vinyl continues to rule the event; the best seller this year was the Crosley limited-edition Charles Schultz/Peanuts version (pictured at left). The biggest sellers among RSD releases included sets from Nirvana, Bruce Springsteen and Flaming Lips.

Currier noted that there was a constant line outside his store until noon, "It’s scary ordering that much product," he tells us "But it’s also exciting to see it fly off of the shelves."

[CookyMonzta]

Next year's Record Store Day will have at least one less indie store. It was announced that Yongman Kim's empire will go extinct when the last of his music and video stores, on 1st Avenue and 8th Street in Manhattan, closes down.

[Adam (UTR)]

One more piece of news via this tweet: 369,000 pieces of vinyl were sold on RSD, which gives last week the record for the single largest period of vinyl purchases since Soundscan began tracking in 1991.

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/6069804/record-store-day-chart-recap-vinyl-album-sales-reach-historic-high

Record Store Day Chart Recap: Vinyl Album Sales Reach Historic High
By Keith Caulfield, Los Angeles | April 24, 2014

Record Store Day (RSD) shakes up Billboard's charts, as a bevy of albums and singles released for the indie retail event on April 19 overwhelm our lists.

On the 25-position Tastemakers chart -- which tracks the top-selling albums at independent and small chain stores -- only three albums weren't specifically tied to RSD festivities. The chart (excerpted below) is led by Green Day's 18-track "Demolicious" album, which was released exclusively to indie retailers on CD, vinyl and cassette. (Yes, cassette.)

It sold nearly 4,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Of that sum, 42 percent were CD, 42 percent were vinyl LPs and 16 percent were cassettes. "Demolicious" will become available to digital retailers on May 19, but its physical configurations will remain exclusive to indie sellers for the time being.

INDIE RULES: Independent stores represented 19.4 percent of all physical albums sold in the week ending April 20 (605,000 of 5.3 million) -- likely the highest share of physical albums for the indie sector since SoundScan started tracking sales in 1991.

Billboard's Tastemakers Albums
(chart dated May 3, reflecting sales in the week ending April 20)

1. Green Day, "Demolicious" (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
2. Beck, "Morning Phase" (Fonograf Records/Capitol)
3. Childish Gambino, "Because the Internet" (Glassnote)
4. The Afghan Whigs, "Do To the Beast" (Sub Pop)
5. Notorious B.I.G., "Life After Death" (Bad Boy/Rhino)
6. Various Artists, "The Space Project" (Lefse/Fat Possum)
7. Bruce Springsteen, "American Beauty" (EP) (Columbia)
8. Grateful Dead, "Hampton Coliseum: Friday May 4, 1979" (Grateful
Dead/Rhino)
9. Nas, "Illmatic" (Columbia/Legacy)
10. Jake Bugg, "Live at Silver Platters: Seattle WA, January 20, 2014" (EP) (Virgin/EMI/Jake Bugg/Island)

(The week's top-selling albums based on an influential panel of stores comprised of independent retailer coalitions and smaller regional chains. Titles are ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Full chart viewable at billboard.biz.)

VITAL VINYL: Overall vinyl album sales also hit a SoundScan-era high in the week ending April 20, as 369,000 LPs were sold. That easily beats the previous record, logged with 295,000 LPs in the week ending Dec. 22, 2013. (A year ago, RSD helped yield 244,000 vinyl LPs sold in the week ending April 20, 2013.)

Billboard's Vinyl Albums
(chart dated May 3, reflecting sales in the week ending April 20)

1. Childish Gambino, "Because the Internet" (Glassnote)
2. The Afghan Whigs, "Do To the Beast" (Sub Pop)
3. Notorious B.I.G., "Life After Death" (Bad Boy/Rhino)
4. Bruce Springsteen, "American Beauty" (EP) (Columbia)
5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience, "Live At Monterey" (Experience
Hendrix/Legacy)
6. Grateful Dead, "Hampton Coliseum: Friday May 4, 1979" (Grateful
Dead/Rhino)
7. Tame Impala, "Live Versions" (Modular/Interscope/IGA)
8. Joy Division, "An Ideal For Living" (EP) (Warner UK/Rhino)
9. The Flaming Lips, "7 Skies H3" (Lovely Sorts Of Death/Warner Bros.)
10. The Ramones, "Meltdown With the Ramones EP" (Sire/Rhino)

(The week's top-selling vinyl albums, ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Full chart viewable at billboard.biz.)

SINGLES ACTION: In terms of singles sales -- a normally dormant retail category -- there were 104,000 physical singles sold in the week ending April 20. That's up 68 percent compared with the haul a year ago (62,000) and up 1,200 percent from the week ending April 13 (8,000).

On the Hot Singles Sales chart, the tally is livened up by RSD, as all 25 titles are affiliated with RSD. (We have excerpted the top 10, below.) The chart is topped by Nirvana's 7-inch vinyl single "Pennyroyal Tea" (3,000 sold). The single was originally planned to be released in 1994, but was withheld in the wake of Kurt Cobain's death.

Billboard's Hot Singles Sales
(chart dated May 3, reflecting sales in the week ending April 20)

1. Nirvana, "Pennyroyal Tea" (Sub Pop/Geffen/Interscope)
2. Devo/The Flaming Lips, "Gates of Steel" (Live) (Warner Bros./Rhino)
3. The Cure/Dinosaur Jr., "Just Like Heaven" (Fiction/Elektra/Rhino)
4. David Bowie, "1984" (Parlophone/Rhino)
5. Love/Rush, "7 and 7 Is" (Elektra/Rhino)
6. Frank Zappa, "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" (Zappa/UMe)
7. Poison Idea/Pantera, "The Badge" (East West/Rhino)
8. Paramore, "Ain't It Fun" (Fueled By Ramen/RRP)
9. Fleetwood Mac, "Dragonfly" (Reprise/Warner Bros./Rhino)
10. Garbage With Brody Dalle, "Girls Talk" (Stun Volume)

(The week's top-selling physical singles -- and digital bundles -- ranked by sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. Full chart viewable at billboard.biz.)

The titles at Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 7 are part of Warner Music Group's Side By Side series, where the same song is performed by two artists (the original performer, plus a later cover). The Love/Rush title was sold as a "mystery artist" single, where the contents of the single were hidden from the customer's view until after purchase.

Some notable entries outside of the top 10 on Hot Singles Sales include: The Black Keys' CD single "Fever/Turn Blue" at No. 12 (both songs are from the band's forthcoming new studio set, "Turn Blue"), Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" (on glow-in-the-dark 10" vinyl) at No. 18 and One Direction's "Midnight Memories" (on 7" vinyl picture disc) at No. 21.

[HolidayGuy]

Roughly 600 Green Day cassettes sold. :'(