Here we define cluster as a collection of stores where there is at most one kilometer from one store to another. If you really want to get your digging on, but don’t want to walk too far from store to store, we also figured out the biggest clusters of record shops in the world. With 1993 km to the the closest shop ( Marbecks in Auckland, New Zealand) it is the most remote record shop in the VinylHub database. 2 If you think the most exciting finds are in the most remote places, you should go to Tonga and visit the CD sellers at the market in Nuku’alofa. In fact, it is almost as far as you can get between any two points on earth (which is around 20,000 km). At just under 19,978 km apart, no two record shops in the VinylHub database are further apart. If you fancy an original and exciting trip, why not travel from Citadel Records in Madrid, Spain to Star Second-Hand Book – Music in Palmerston North, New Zealand. With that basic stuff out of the way, let’s get cracking on some more interesting statistics. Perhaps some New York City treasures still need to be submitted to the database? Number of Record Shops per City Name It’s also notable that the Big Apple only comes in at 7th place. It makes sense that Tokyo would come out on top here as one of the world’s biggest cities known for its love of music and vinyl. Here Tokyo wins the race, narrowly beating the German and English capitals. Next, and perhaps more interesting, let’s break the number of record shops down by city. Well done Palau, but in your face Greenland (remember, second comes right after first) 1 So there’s also a column for number of record stores per 100,000 inhabitants (click the column headings to order the table by that attribute). Now, because I’m from a tiny country with an inferiority complex that never ranks high in anything (unless by capita) I also had a go at breaking things down by population. Number of Record Shops per Country Country Not a lot of surprises, but interesting to see the Netherlands ranking so high, being a smaller country.
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Moving down the top ten, you have the bigger European countries, followed by Canada, Japan and Australia. It should come as no surprise that the US leads things here the world’s biggest economy, 3rd most populous country, and arguably the biggest force in popular music in the world for the last century (also Discogs’ home country and one of our strongest user bases). Now let’s further break down the number of record stores by country. With a database many independent retailers find indispensable, Discog’s now claims 3 million users (although not all are active) and nearly 15,000 new users per week. The site gets some nearly 400,000 orders a month which would put it on pace for 4.8 million orders for 2016.(mouse over or tap each country on the map to see the exact numbers) Its business model is similar to eBay or Amazon with the site taking 8 percent of sales which would mean $8 million in revenues last year. Today Discogs has a staff of 50 and offices in Beaverton, Ore. and Amsterdam and expects its 2016 revenue to break the $100 million sales threshold. The site slowly became a user-generated, wiki-like database. The platform experimented with ad revenue, paid subscription and membership models before 2007 when the site added a marketplace feature where users could buy and sell vinyl and and which led to something of a windfall. The Juan Maclean to Play Discogs' Debut Crate Diggers Event in L.A.: Exclusiveĭiscogs was founded by then-Intel programmer Kevin Lewandowski in 2000, who started it as a hobby to catalog his collection of electronic albums for which he cross-linked artists, releases and labels on a Pentium II server in his closet.