Record Store Day 2027: Saturday, April 17 (Expected)

Date: expected, not announced · List: not published (due early February) · Updated: October 12, 2026

This table is updated as Record Store Day confirms each part of the 2027 event. Last checked: October 12, 2026.

The official Record Store Day 2027 list has not been published yet. On past form it arrives in early February: the 2026 list went up on February 4, 2026 on recordstoreday.com and on recordstoreday.co.uk the same day, and RECORD STORE DAY JAPAN announced its date and titles together on February 5. When the 2027 list is out, the full list goes on this page.

The list is published as web pages, title by title, not as a document. If an organiser releases a PDF, we will link it, but no one can promise one in advance.

Every title on the US list sits in one of three categories, defined by Record Store Day itself:

• RSD Exclusive — physically released only at independent record shops.
• RSD First — at independent shops first, but it may reach other retailers or web stores later. Not worth paying a reseller premium for on the day.
• Small run / regional — pressings under 1,000 copies, or titles sold only in certain regions or shops.

Two things catch people out. The pressing numbers on recordstoreday.com are US quantities, not worldwide ones. And the US list is not the UK or European list: each country publishes its own, and Record Store Day says plainly that some titles are offered in some countries and not in others.

Checked on each official site on October 12, 2026.

Record Store Day is "usually held on the third Saturday in April", in the organisers' own words, and the third Saturday of April 2027 is April 17. The usual reason for moving it is Easter: when the third Saturday has fallen on Easter weekend, the event has run a week earlier or later — in 2017, 2019, 2022 and 2025, with 2014 the exception. Easter 2027 is on March 28, so there is no clash. Record Store Day Sweden's official site already gives April 17, 2027 as its date.

The dates are not completely predictable, though: 2023 was moved from the third to the fourth Saturday with no Easter reason. Until the official announcement, treat April 17 as the date to plan around, not to book travel on.

Calendar sites that simply print the third Saturday list April 15, 2028 — Easter Saturday — which on past form is unlikely to be the date.

Yes. Record Store Day runs twice a year: the main event on a Saturday in April, and RSD Black Friday on the day after US Thanksgiving, with a shorter list. The next one is RSD Black Friday on Friday, November 27, 2026; after it comes Record Store Day 2027, expected on Saturday, April 17, 2027.

During the pandemic the April event was split into several smaller "RSD Drops" days. Neither of the two regular events is the same as National Vinyl Record Day on August 12, a US observance with no official list or exclusive releases.

1. October 2026: the RSD Black Friday list. In 2025 it was published on October 2.
2. Friday, November 27, 2026: RSD Black Friday, the November edition with a shorter list.
3. December 1, 2026: the US application deadline for new shops; UK shop registration opens.
4. Early January 2027: the official date announcement.
5. Late January to February 2027: the ambassadors — US and global first, then national ones.
6. Early February 2027: the official release list, US and UK on the same day, then the national lists. Titles keep being added afterwards: in 2026 the Taylor Swift 7-inch was announced on March 2, four weeks after the list.
7. March to April 2027: shops publish their in-store events and how they will run the morning.
8. Saturday, April 17, 2027 (expected): Record Store Day, in person only.
9. The days after: leftovers go online — in the US from Sunday morning, in the UK from Monday evening.

The UK and Ireland hold Record Store Day on the same Saturday, so RSD UK 2027 is also expected on April 17, 2027. RSD UK publishes its own list on recordstoreday.co.uk — in 2026 on the same day as the US list, February 4 — and it is not a copy of the American one: of the 150 titles on the UK list for RSD Black Friday 2026, 40 were not on the US list at all.

Shop sign-up for RSD 2027 opens on December 1, 2026, and labels can already submit titles. Leftovers go online later in the UK than in the US: in 2026 from 8pm on Monday, April 20, two days after the event. RSD UK's FAQ now says "one week after", so check the 2027 rules when they are published before you plan around either. To choose your shops, start with London, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol or Edinburgh.

There is no Record Store Day 2027 price list, and there will not be an official one. Record Store Day does not sell the releases or hand them to shops: each shop orders from distributors and sets its own prices. A "price list" is therefore each shop's own list, and most shops put theirs up after the official list, in the weeks before the day.

As a rule, a Record Store Day pressing costs more than the regular pressing of the same album, and multi-disc sets and box sets considerably more. Set a budget before February, and decide your first and second choices before the prices appear rather than after.

What a release is worth after the day is a separate question, and for most titles the answer is "about what it cost". How past releases have held up is on the Record Store Day 2026 page.

• Find your shops now. Not every independent shop takes part. Use the official locator for your country once it updates, and our directory of record shops by city to choose a first, second and third shop.
• Learn the rules where you live. No pre-orders or reservations anywhere; one copy per title in the UK and Spain; online sales of leftovers at different times in each country. They are all on the Record Store Day overview.
• Set a budget before the list comes out. At one UK shop in 2026, multi-LP sets were priced from £59.99 to £88.99 and a 7-inch single at £19.99.
• Know which releases hold their value. Most do not: the median 2026 release was asking $20.46 on Discogs five and a half months later. The few that rise are the ones with long want lists — the numbers are on the Record Store Day 2026 page.
• Use Black Friday as a rehearsal. The same rules, a shorter list and smaller queues.

Record Store Day was conceived in 2007 by independent record shop owners and staff meeting in Baltimore, and the first was held on April 19, 2008, with nearly 100 US shops and fewer than 20 exclusive releases. By 2026 it had grown to more than 350 releases in the US and 500 in the UK, and to more than 3,000 shops in 23 countries. RSD UK has already said that 2027 will mark the 20th anniversary; how it will be marked has not been announced. The full history, with every date and ambassador since 2008, is on the Record Store Day overview.