A choose group of the UK’s vinyl outlets are set to be profiled in a brand new YouTube sequence to have fun Document Retailer Day 2025.
Titled Behind The Counter, the 12-part sequence is premiering each Tuesday main as much as Document Retailer Day itself on April 12. Every episode will showcase the colourful tradition surrounding a special unbiased file store.
The sequence is made in partnership with the audio gear model Bowers & Wilkins, in addition to Basic Album Sundays and Document Story Day UK itself.
The primary two episodes have already gone reside, profiling London’s Sprint The Henge and the Isle Of Man’s Sound Information. Watch each movies beneath.
That is the sixth season of Behind The Counter, with the sequence having amassed over 2.5million views up to now in complete. Different outlets set to be featured embody Bangor’s Bending Sound, Brighton’s Capsule Information, Fortunate’s Document Bar in Cornwall and Off The Document in Milton Keynes.
Additionally getting their very own episode are Hull’s Out Of The Attic, Devon’s Phoenix Sounds, Raven Information in London, Telford’s Spinning Round Information, Liverpool’s The Musical Field and 13 Information in Dundee.
2025 marks the 18th version of Document Retailer Day and it’ll characteristic over 270 unbiased file outlets across the nation, in addition to hundreds extra globally. As is the usual, there may also be a sequence of in-store events and a celebration of unbiased file retailer tradition.
Put up Malone has been introduced because the ambassador for this 12 months’s occasion. “What an honour, I can’t imagine I used to be chosen to be Document Retailer Day’s Ambassador for 2025,” he stated in a brand new assertion. “Document Retailer Day is so necessary and I actually hope to do my half to maintain it alive.”
“We love hitting native outlets after we’re on the highway, seeing all of the loopy art work, the entire power in a file retailer is simply tremendous inspiring. I really feel at dwelling. It’s actually an unexplainable feeling to hit up a store and dig via crates, simply see what grabs your eye,” he added.
With the brand new affirmation, Posty follows within the footsteps of earlier ambassadors like St. Vincent, Taylor Swift, Elton John, Noel Gallagher, The 1975 and Dave Grohl. Final 12 months noticed two big names tackle the title: Paramore and Kate Bush.
Final 12 months’s version of Document Retailer Day was held on April 20 and noticed releases from The 1975, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Speaking Heads, Paramore, Blur, Lily Allen, Gorillaz, Elton John, Paramore and Noel Gallagher’s Excessive Flying Birds.
It additionally happened amid information that vinyl gross sales had risen by practically 15 per cent within the first 9 months of 2023, regardless of the continued dominance of streaming providers.