Record Store Day: KL & Vinyl Boom

Record Store Day is landing in Kuala Lumpur’s Taman Tun Dr Ismail market on Sunday, April 26, with Sputnik Rekordz back at the center after years off. (thestar.com.my) The Kuala Lumpur event runs from 1 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. with free admission, and Sputnik Rekordz said it is its first major public Record Store Day program since 2019. (thestar.com.my) The first-floor public spaces at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail market are being opened for a collectors’ market curated by Kena Sound!, a sound system setup by Konscious Island Soundsystem, live performances, food-and-drink pop-ups, and a Cultkids art merchandise booth. (thestar.com.my) Record Store Day started in 2008 as a celebration of independent record shops, and the official site says it now spans about 1,400 stores in the United States and thousands more internationally. (recordstoreday.com) The Kuala Lumpur program is arriving as U.S. vinyl revenue crossed $1 billion in 2025, according to the Recording Industry Association of America’s year-end report released on March 16, 2026. (riaa.com) That same report put total U.S. recorded-music wholesale revenue at a record $11.5 billion in 2025, with paid subscriptions contributing $6.4 billion, or 55.3% of the total. (riaa.com) Billboard reported in August 2025 that Luminate presented new physical-music data at Record Store Day Summer Camp in New Orleans, including vinyl’s rising share and Taylor Swift’s outsized role in the format. (billboard.com) Record Store Day’s official 2026 site shows the annual release list is still built around limited-edition pressings and exclusive variants, the same collector model that drives queues at independent shops. (recordstoreday.com) In Kuala Lumpur, that collector culture is moving from the shop floor into a public market building for one Sunday afternoon, with Sputnik Rekordz using TTDI Market as its biggest Record Store Day stage since before the pandemic. (thestar.com.my)