As we become aware of issues for any specific title, that title will move to the RSD Drops date and you’ll see that on the List on the website. The List includes titles that are coming to record stores on Record Store Day in April and those that will be coming in June. That will serve as a street date safety net, for titles that are part of the Record Store Day celebration, but for any number of reasons beyond controlling, can’t make it into stores on April 23. We’re also being proactive with designating an RSD Drops date on June 18. We worked proactively with artists, labels and distribution to push back by several months the planning for Record Store Day 2022, some of these titles have been worked on for more than a year.
We help the stores deal with it every release day, and we know that our Saturday in April is no exception to issues. That was an important distinction.īut we’re well aware of where we are in terms of manufacturing, shipping, etc.
They were release dates –important release dates, but not the party that Record Store Day is. Importantly, those dates weren’t called Record Store Day, because they weren’t. In “normal” times, the list of releases is a part of the celebration as a whole, but for RSD Drops, the focus became the releases themselves, and getting them into stores, and then into customer homes as safely as possible, bringing much-needed revenue and stock in a very unpredictable time. In the last few years, our plans for RSD Drops helped record stores around the world get through the pandemic, by marking a change in the way Record Store Day was focused.
A safety net for anything a few months still down the road. We also feel strongly that it’s important to focus on those stores themselves, and celebrate what they do year-round, in their communities.Īs we’ve all learned in the past few years, it can be hard to make any plans in permanent ink, so it’s always a good idea to have a sort of contingency plan. We feel strongly that stores have learned and adapted in the past few years and are ready to bring back elements of a “traditional” Record Store Day, bands and beer and fun and people and whatever parts of the party they like, in ways that make them, and their customers, comfortable. In 2022, there is one Record Store Day, April 23.
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