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The Top 200

U.S. Music Retailers

 

What are America's largest music stores, and what did they gross in sales last year? In addition to total revenues, this report includes sales per employee, sales per store, and productivity rankings, as well as general background and contact information for the 200 largest U.S music retailers. The most current report includes information on companies with sales ranging from $3 million to $2 billion. Collectively, this group of leading music stores employs nearly 20,000 and accounts for more than 50% of overall music industry sales volume.

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Data for the Top 200 music retailers is presented in the following format (year-old data used for sample):

Rank 2017	Rank 2016	Company	2017 Sales	% Chg	2016 Sales	2017 Emp	2016 Emp	2017 Loc	2016 Loc
1	1	Guitar Center, Inc.	$2,235,000,000	4.0%	$2,140,000,000	11,172	11,000	466	430
2	3	Sweetwater	$618,000,000	22.0%	$508,000,000	1,340	1,115	1	1
3	2	Sam Ash Music Corp.	$385,000,000	7.0%	$360,000,000	1,062	995	45	44
4	4	American Musical Supply	$306,000,000	15.0%	$266,400,000	150	140	140	1
5	5	Full Compass Systems, Ltd.	$140,00,000	0%	$140,000,000	215	215	1	1
6	6	B&H Photo & Video	$98,000,000	0.0%	$98,000,000	N/A	N/A	1	1
7	7	Washington Music	$93,000,000	3.0%	$90,300,000	105	105	1	1
8	9	J.W. Pepper	$86,000,000	4.0%	$82,690,000	246	197	12	12
9	8	Steinway Hall Retail	$59,979,000	5.0%	$56,986,000	45	54	14	14
10	10	Alto Music	$53,928,000	7.0%	$50,400,000	103	99	3	3

Information in the current report includes estimated sales, employment and location count data on the following music stores:

Alamo Music Center All County Music Alto Music American Musical Supply Amro Music Stores Anderson Music Co Andy's Music Art's Music Shop, Inc. Austin Bazaar B & H Photo & Video Bailey Brothers Music Bananas At Large, Inc. Beacock Music Bert Murdock Music Bertrand's Music Bill's Music House Bizarre Guitar Blues Angel Music, Inc Brass Bell Music Store Brighton Music Center Brook Mays/H&H Music Buddy Roger's Music Butler Music LLC Carter Vintage Guitars Cascio Interstate Music Chicago Music Exchange Chuck Levin's Washington Music  Conrad Music Cooper Music Crazy Dave's Music Cream City Music Cunningham Piano Co. Inc. Dave Phillips Music & Sound Dave's Guitar Shop Dietze Music House Downtown Piano Works Draisen Edwards Music Drum Center of Portsmouth Drum City Guitarland Dunkley Music Easy Music Center Eckroth Music Company Edmond Music Eighth St. Music Elderly Instruments Evola Music Center Fletcher Music Centers Fort Bend Music Center Forte Piano Fox Music House Frank & Camille's East Frank Rieman Music, Inc. Full Compass Systems, Ltd. Fuller's Vintage Guitar Gadsden Music Company Garrison Music Co Gelb Music George's Music Stores Inc. GF Sales LLC Gigasonic.com Graves Piano & Organ Company Griggs Music Groth Music Gruhn Guitars, Inc. Guitar Center, Inc. Guitar Salon International Guitar Showcase

Heid Music Henderson Music Co. Hermes Music Hillje Music Center, LLC. House of Guitars Huber & Breese Music Studio I DJ Now Instrument Pro Instrumental Music Instrumental Music Center Island Music Company J.W. Pepper Jackson's Music Jacobs Music Company Jim's Music Centers John Keal Music Co., Inc. Johnson String Instrument Jordan Kitt's Music JRR Shop Ken Stanton Music Kennelly Keys Music, Inc. Kessler & Sons Keyboard Concepts Kidder Music Service Kincaid's Is Music Kraft Music Lacefield Music Lafayette Music Co., Inc. Lane Music Larry's Music Center Leitz Music Co., Inc. Lindeblad Piano Restoration Liquid Audio Lone Star Percussion M. Steinert & Sons Manchester Music Mill Marshall Music Melhart Music Center Menchey Music Service Meyer Music Meyer Music, Inc. Milano Music Center MiniMax electronics Mississippi Music, Inc. Mom's Music Moore Music Mozingo Music Music Arts Enterprises, Inc. Music Exchange Music Go Round Music Villa Musical Innovations MusicNotes.com N' Stuff Music Nick Rail Music Norman's Rare Guitars N-Tune Music and Sound Paige's Music Palen Music Center, Inc. Pecknel Music Company Pellegrino Music Center Pender's Music Company Piano & Organ Center Piano Distributors Piano Gallery Piano Music Center Miami Pitbull Audio

Planet DJ Playground Music Center, Inc. PM Music Center Portland Music Company Portman's Music inc. Pro Audio Star Pro Music Group Prosser Piano & Organ Quinlan & Fabish Music Co. Quinn The Eskimo Vintage Horns Rainbow Guitars Rayburn Musical Instruments Riverton Music Robert M. Sides Rockley Family Foundation Romeo Music Rondo Music Royalton Music Center, Inc. Rudy's Music Stop Russo Music Center Saied Music Company Sam Ash Music Corp. Schmitt Music Company Senseney Music, Inc. Shar Products Company Sigler Music Online Skip's Music, Inc. SoCal Pianos Springfield Music Stanton's Sheet Music, Inc. Steinway Hall North Texas/Houston Steinway Hall Retail Steinway Hall-Cleveland Steinway Piano Gallery Steinway Piano Gallery-DC Steinway Piano-Austin Steve Weiss Music Strait Music Summerhays Music Sweetwater Swicegood Music Company Tarpley Music Taylor Music, Inc. Ted Brown Music Company The Guitar Sanctuary The Guitar Store The Music Emporium The Music Zoo The STRATosphere The Violin Shop in Lincoln Tobias Music Total Music Source Truetone Music Unique Squared Vintage King Audio, Inc. Ward-Brodt Music Mall West Music Co. White House of Music Wichita Band Wild West Guitars Wildwood Guitars Willcutt Guitars Williamson Music 1st Willis Music Company Zeswitz Music Zorro Sound