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A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music. Per the name, in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records. But over the course of the 20th century, record shops sold the new formats that were developed, such as eight track tapes, compact cassettes and compact discs ...
Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded in early 1976 by Richard Branson as a record shop on London 's Oxford Street. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. [ 1 ]
Beanos was a second-hand record shop, once the largest in Europe, [1] located in the South London borough of Croydon. It was founded by musician David Lashmar in 1975 and continued to expand through three increasingly larger shops, ending up in an old printing works in Middle Street in the 1990s. After over thirty years of trading, Beanos faced ...
The United States has remained the biggest market for recorded music in IFPI history, except in 2010 when Japan topped the list. The largest Asian music market, Japan has always [vague] stayed within the top two. The other largest music markets by region include the United Kingdom in Europe, Australia in Oceania, and Brazil in South America.
Official website. www.fat-cat.co.uk. FatCat Records is an English independent record label based in Brighton. The label's output reaches into many styles including experimental rock, electronica, psychedelic folk, contemporary classical, noise and post-punk. Notable artists that have released music on the label include Sigur Rós, Múm, Animal ...
A record store in Barcelona in 2016. Record stores have experienced a boom following the creation of the annual worldwide Record Store Day.. The vinyl revival, also known as the vinyl resurgence, is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records, or gramophone records, that has been taking place in the music industry.
The Kitsuné Company S.A.S doing business as Maison Kitsuné (French pronunciation: [mezɔ̃ kitsune]); is a French lifestyle brand founded in 2002 by Gildas Loaëc, Masaya Kuroki, and the London-based company Åbäke. [1] Kitsuné operates as a fashion brand, a record label, an art gallery, and a chain of cafés and restaurants worldwide.
Sterling Records is a classical music record label, specializing in releasing world premiere recordings of the orchestral work of romantic composers. The label was founded by Stockholm resident Bo Hyttner as a continuation of his record shop in 1980. Since then, it has released over eighty CDs, most of them containing works that were previously ...