CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 1/11/24

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Hi Everyone,
 
This week I wanted to share some exciting news from the CIMS group.
 
Bob Roets, owner of Wooden Nickel Records for 46 years, announced his retirement at the end of last year.  Don’t worry, Wooden Nickel isn’t going anywhere as Bob is passing the torch to his son Chris.  Congrats to Bob on building such a longstanding music legacy within the Fort Wayne community and I am thrilled it all carries on with Chris, the next generation.
 
Here is an article about Wooden Nickel: https://www.wane.com/news/local-news/wooden-nickel-owner-retires-after-46th-christmas-selling-vinyl/amp/

Here are the charts,
Andrea

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 1/4/24

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A NEW RECORD STORE VINYL SALES CHART

A COLLABORATION BETWEEN HITS, STREETPULSE, INDIE RETAIL COALITIONS, RECORD STORE DAY AND MUSIC BIZ GIVES INDIE RECORD STORES AN OUTLET AS THEY SAY “BYE BYE BYE” TO LUMINATE


Eighteen years ago, most people would have been hard-pressed to come up with a weekly list of ten albums that sold more than a few copies on vinyl, much less a chart of fifty. All these years later, sales of vinyl albums exceed tens of thousands every week, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual business. Independent record stores are at the heart of this exciting, positive section of the industry and their collective sales are an increasingly important aspect of the business. A new chart, the Vinyl 50, published by HITS and powered by StreetPulse, begins this week as a brand-new place for stores to show off their dominant place in vinyl’s “resurgence”.


https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=339073&title=INTRODUCING-THE-INDIE-VINYL-SALES-CHART


And it's not just all about the “Benjamins” or the number of vinyl albums sold—more than that has grown in the past two decades: so has the sheer number of record stores. Thanks to a whole new generation of entrepreneurs, there are now approximately 1,500 record stores that both celebrate Record Store Day and sell new vinyl each week. Pretty exciting stuff! In these stores music is shared, families bond, friendships are forged, communities are supported, dreams come true and records are sold. Expansion! Growth! Heck, even Taylor Swift made an album just for these indie record stores, selling 75,000 copies on vinyl in a single week. That's just how much record stores matter.  


Historically, record stores have reported their sales to Nielsen Soundscan--since purchased by Luminate-- providing Luminate and Billboard with one of the biggest feel-good stories of the music industry in the last few years, with year-over-year growth outpacing even the most positive projections. Change and expansion requires support, though, especially when what’s growing is independent businesses run by people who live and breathe music but aren’t necessarily all at the same level of business and technology savvy.  Instead of ramping up resources to help record stores, increasing both reporters and the accuracy of their data, Luminate's response to this extraordinary growth and new energy was to… well, ignore it. To invest no time, no money, no employees, and no resources into reporting the exploding sales of vinyl with these indie record stores - a dynamic sector of the music industry that many consider its heart and soul. Indeed, behind the scenes, Luminate’s relationship with record stores and those who represent them was deteriorating.

 

"It isn't easy being an independent business, but over the past two years Luminate/Billboard somehow found it within themselves to make it harder by creating new and depressing ways to kick out the sales of albums credited to record stores, including, but not limited to, sales made through a store’s website,” says Record Store Day Co-Founder and President of the Dept of Record Stores coalition Michael Kurtz. “If a store had an artist appearance and sold the artist’s albums to fans, or if a store sent in proof of vinyl sales five different ways but missed one Luminate rule, or even if the store did everything according to the changing rule sets, Luminate might screw up and kick out the album sales anyway. Even legacy stores who have been in business for forty years or more had their album sales mysteriously zeroed out. Making matters worse, Luminate replaced their lone employee dedicated to working with record stores with a merchant service email address. It was untenable and inevitable that they would leave this mess." 

 

Last October, Luminate announced their decision to stop weighting physical record sales on a specific date, meaning that without a VERY LARGE influx of reporting stores in a VERY SHORT time, the charts would go from being semi-representational of the actual sales of physical media to looking like physical sales fell off a cliff.  Record stores and retail coalitions were shocked by this decision, and so were the people who use Luminate's data to make daily decisions, including distributors, major and independent record labels, publishers, managers but also spinning out into the businesses that press and ship the records, make the turntables they’re played on and more. So many people, publicly and privately, called on Luminate to change their minds, or at least to bring on a representative sample of stores before unweighting sales, as that would at least mitigate the harm to the charts this unweighting would cause. Luminate's communications about this in the short three months since they announced it were essentially pleas to have the industry help them quickly get more stores on board-- but no changes have been made on Luminate's part to improve the relationship, make onboarding easier, or create transparency about why certain sales are allowed to count and others are thrown out.

 

No one should be surprised that the majority of independent record stores reporting to Luminate have decided to stop.  Why would they bend over backwards to have their data be used in a way that every corner of the business has said is, at best, a very very bad idea? Especially after they’d spent time watching Luminate make their decisions without consulting them or the people who really understand the quirky but important nature of the indie record store world? “We understood how, historically, the industry looked to the Billboard charts and the data that Luminate provides when making important decisions that affect our businesses, so we spent the better part of two years trying to forge and establish a true working relationship with Luminate,” says Coalition of Independent Music Stores President and Record Store Day Co-Founder Andrea Paschal. “The hope was that an actual partnership could be beneficial to everyone. Instead, we were brushed aside when trying to provide valuable insight, ignored, and left in the dark, often finding out by word of mouth after the fact about major decisions that affected our stores. Decisions that continued to erode and marginalize the efforts and sales taking place in indie stores specifically, while also misrepresenting the contributions of these unique retailers to the overall tally of physical goods sold, and to the music industry as a whole, because their reporting is based on what you would call a mere data sample representation of existing independent record stores. It became pretty clear that there was no real intention to change that."

 

Ultimately, it’s all about business decisions, according to Music Biz President Portia Sabin. "Luminate made a business decision to unweight physical sales, and there are consequences to every decision.  Luminate has the right to make whatever decisions it wants for its business, but so do retail stores."


Eric Levin, founder of the Alliance of Independent Media Stores, another Record Store Day Co-Founder and crucially for this topic, the owner of legendary and beloved Atlanta record store Criminal Records sums it all up: "My store has been a proud Soundscan reporter since 1991, we treated it like a badge of honor. Status gave us access to great in-store appearances and access to co-op advertising.  We’ve made so many friends with artists, labels, distributors and management and those relationships all remain.  Our commitment is to the lifetime of an artist.  When Luminate took over and began enforcing new rules and regulations on us, our relationship with them was over.  Plus, they were rude.  As Bobby Hill said on King of the Hill: “That’s My Purse, I Don’t Know You.”

For questions, press requests, logos, and artwork, please see the publicists below.
 

About Record Store Day
Record Store Day, the organization, is managed by the Department of Record Stores and is organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS), the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) and promotes independent record stores year-round with events, special releases and other fun things.


Record Store Day, the global celebration of the culture of the record store, takes place annually in April.


Record Store Day Sponsors:
ADA, Alliance Entertainment, AMPED, AMS, BCW Supplies, Concord Label Group, Crosley Turntables, Dogfish Head Brewery, Furnace Record Pressing, InGrooves, Music Business Association, Marshall Headphones and Speakers, MVD Entertainment, The Orchard, Redeye Worldwide, Sony Music, ThinkIndie, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Traffic Entertainment, URP Distribution, Virgin, Vinyl Styl, WMX


For any media inquiries, please contact:


Perry Serpa
Vicious Kid Public Relations
perry@viciouskidpr.com
917.660.4137


Cristina Sneed
NoiseNY
cristina@noiseNY.com
917.684.0452


Andrea Paschal
CIMS / ThinkIndie Distribution / RSD
andrea@cimsmusic.com
205.595.1932 x208

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 12/28/23

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On October 19, 2023, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores along with AIMS, DORS, FAMS and Amoeba Music released a public statement in opposition to Luminate's decision to change the way sales from independent record stores are reported.
 
Here was the initial 10/19 open letter:
 

Hi everyone,
 

In communications with various industry groups, the data analytics company Luminate has announced a dramatic change in the method used to calculate physical sales from independent retailers, set to go into effect 12/29/23. The details disclosed lead us to expect charts and data that show an abrupt, inaccurate, and misleading physical market collapse immediately in Q1 2024.

The rise in physical sales in general -- and vinyl sales in particular -- has been a positive story in the music industry for over a decade. Independently owned record stores have provided the music business with sustained positive media attention, as well as an entry point to music for consumers. The new leadership at Luminate, along with Billboard, has created and implemented new rules, changed guidelines, and defined chart ineligibility in ways that have been damaging to record stores, labels and artists. Regardless of this, as coalitions and as Record Store Day organizers, we have worked for eighteen months to increase the number of stores reporting to Luminate, despite the confusion and lack of clarity in that process. As of today, the number of reporting accounts is 72, representing less than 5% of the indie record store base of over 1400 storefronts. We have seen little to indicate that the number of reporting stores necessary to prevent a perceived market share collapse when these changes are implemented is attainable by the end of the year. 

Our desire to be true partners in the effort to raise the number of reporting stores, thereby increasing the accuracy of the crucial data provided to labels, artists and management for decisions that will affect the entire industry has not been matched by Luminate. The changes laid out for the end of the year, which will affect not only the charts and data, but will directly impact over 1400 independently-owned businesses did not include input or approval from the record stores, from artist managers, or record labels. 
 
To be clear: the negative impact to the charts in January 2024 will be due to Luminate's decision to abruptly change how physical reporting is collected and calculated. We call for record labels, vinyl manufacturing plants, distribution companies, and record stores to be aware of this, and to work together against this inexplicable but blatant attempt to diminish the importance of the physical market to the music business ecosystem.

Alliance of Independent Media Stores
Amoeba Music
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
Dept of Record Stores
F.A.M.S. (Forever A Music Store) Coalition


It was announced mid-December that Luminate would continue to move forward with this change starting Week 1 2024, a decision that has been universally criticized by retailers, labels, distributors, vinyl manufacturers and other industry bodies for marginalizing the efforts and sales taking place in indie stores specifically, and with physical goods more broadly.
 
Our opposition to this change still stands.  We also stand behind the decision of any individual store to not have their data be included. 
 
That said, it's great to see what's selling at record stores  so be sure to start checking this link: bit.ly/RecordStoreCharts for Record Store Day's weekly chart of Top Sellers from record stores around the country.
 
As usual the CIMS charts are below.

Andrea

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 12/7/23 + STAFF PICKS

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Hi Everyone,

On October 19, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores along with AIMS, DORS, FAMS and Amoeba Music released a public statement in opposition to Luminate's decision to change the way sales from independent record stores are reported. Yesterday it was announced that Luminate will move forward with this change starting Week 1 2024. Our opposition to this change still stands.

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

ANDREA PASCHAL
CIMS/THINKINDIE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR


Andrea’s favorite albums of 2023 (in no particular order)

1. Jungle- Volcano
2. Blonde Redhead- Sit down for Dinner
3. Gorillaz- Cracker Island
4. Alabaster Deplume- Come with Fierce Grace
5. Oneohtrix Point Never-Again
6. Allison Goldfrapp- The Love Invention
7. La Femme- Paris- HawaÏ
8. Thomas Bangalter- Mythologies
9. Julia Holter- Behind the Wallpaper
10. Blur- Ballad of Darren
11. Beach House- Become EP

LIZ BOGER
CIMS SALES & MARKETING


In no particular order:

Cannons/ Heartbeat Highway
Holly Humberstone/  Paint My Bedroom Black
Local Natives/ Time Will Wait For No One
Feist/ Multitudes
Caroline Polachek/ Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Various Artists / Barbie the Album
Arlo Parks/ My Soft Machine
Slowdive/ Everything is Alive
Sigur Rós/ ÁTTA
Palehound/ Eye on the Bat
M83/ Fantasy 
Samia/Honey 

BLAKE WIMBERLY
CIMS/THINKINDIE A.I.


lp
Hotline TNT- Cartwheel (Third Man)
Various- Gaia: Selected Ambient & Downtempo Works, 1996 - 2003 (Music From Memory)
Wallace- Ripples (Rhythm Section International)
µ-Ziq- 1997 (Balmat)
Slowdive- everything is alive (Dead Oceans)

ep
Gigi Testa- Jinja (Rush Hour)
Space Ghost- Aquarium Nightclub Reworks (Tartelet Records)
Trinidadian Deep- Erotic Sonics (WIP Music)
Larry Heard- Vault Sessions 2 (Alleviated Music)
Buttechno- Minimal Cuts II (Incienso) 

track
Django Django, Yuuko Sings- "Don't Touch That Dial - Make A Dance Remix" (Because Music Ltd.)
Rhode & Brown, Kid Simius- "Suite Tropical" (Shall Not Fade LTD)
Fred P- "On The Beach" (Private Society)
Eden Burns, Christopher Tubbs- "Timmy's Dream - Monday 5am Mix" (Public Possession)
Soichi Terada- "Bamboo Fighter - Byron The Aquarius Remix" (Rush Hour)
Third Wife- "Ride or Die" (Concrete Lab)
Latrec- "Kutika" (Viscera Transmissions)
Known Artist- "I Need - Club Mix" (Club Mix Records)
DJ Immaterial- "Purple Evil" (Geothermal Records)
Barry Can't Swim- "Sunsleeper" (Ninja Tune)

mix
Chaos In The CBD- Fabric Presents: Chaos In The CBD (Fabric Records)

ASHLEY VASKE
CIMS/THINKINDIE ACCOUNTING

 My Favorites of 2023:

Gorillaz: Cracker Island
Feist: Multitudes
Braids: Euphoric Recall
La Femme: Paris-Hawaï
Jenny Lewis: Joy’All
Far From Saints: Far From Saints
Alabaster DePlume: Come With Fierce Grace
Explosions In The Sky: End 
The Chemical Brothers: For That Beautiful Feeling
Cherry Glazerr: I Don’t Want You Anymore
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, Shahzad Ismaily: Love in Exile
The Kills: God Games

SCOTT REGISTER
THINKINDIE A&R


My annual baker’s dozen of some of my favorites. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. Thanks for all you do for indie retail.

1. Lydia Loveless – Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again – Bloodshot Records
2. Far From Saints – Far From Saints – Ignition
3. Peter Gabriel – I/O – Real World Records
4. Semisonic – Little Bit Of Sun – Pleasuresonic
5. Anohni & The Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross – Secretly Canadian
6. Wednesday – Rat Saw God – Dead Oceans
7. Daughter – Stereo Mind Game – Glassnote
8. Jungle – Volcano – Caiola/AWAL
9. Logan Ledger – Golden State – Rounder
10. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Weathervanes – Southeastern Records
11. Jamila Woods – Water Made Us – Jagjaguar
12. Genesis Owusu – Struggler – Ourness/AWAL
13. Wyatt Flores – Life Lessons – Island Records

RUSSELL COTHRAN
THINKINDIE SALES & MARKETING


24 From 23’
1. Slowdive- Everything Is Alive
2. Sigur Ros- Atta
3. Beach House- Become
4. Submotion Orchestra- Unplugged Vol II
5. Deeper- Careful
6. Debby Friday- Good Luck
7. Laurel Halo- Atlas
8. Depeche Mode- Memento Mori’
9. Jpeg Mafia & Danny Brown- Scaring The Hoes
10. James Blake- Playing Robots Into Heaven
11. Luke Schneider- It Is Solved By Walking
12. The Kills- God Games
13. Murray A. Lightburn- Once Upon A Time In Montreal
14. Sofia Kourtesis- Madres
15. David Holmes & Raven Violet- Blind On A Galloping Horse
16. Mayer Hawthorne- For All Time
17. Kevin Drew- Aging
18. Nick Cave & Warren Ellis- Australian Carnage Live At The Sydney Opera House
19. Durand Jones- Wait Til I Get Older
20. The National- First Two Pages Of Frankenstein
21. Mitski- The Land Is Inhospitable & So Are We
22. Caroline Polachek- Desire, I Want To Turn Into You
23. billy woods & Kenny Segal- Maps
24. Beach Fossils- Bunny

NICK CAMPBELL
THINKINDIE WAREHOUSE MANAGER
 
1. Protomartyr - Formal Growth In The Desert
2. The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling
3. Slowdive - everything is alive
4. Wild Nothing - Hold
5. Clark - Sus Dog
6. Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
7. Blonde Redhead - Sit Down for Dinner
8. M83 - FantasyDanny Brown & JPEG
9. Danny Brown & JPEG Mafia - Scaring the Hoes
10. Everything But The Girl - Fuse

JOHNNIE SHANEYFELT
THINKINDIE/CIMS WAREHOUSE


1. Boygenius - The Record (Interscope)
2. Janelle Monae - The Age of Pleasure (Atlantic)
3. Gitkin - Nowhere to Go but Everywhere (Antifragile Music)
4. Pawpaw Rod - This must be a Pawpaw Rod EP  (Godmode)
5. Tyler Childers - Rustlin’ in the Rain (RCA)
6. Drake - For All the Dogs (OVO Sound / Republic)
7. Daniel Ceaser - Never Enough (Republic)

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 11/16/23

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Hi Everyone,
 
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends,  and a successful Black Friday.

Here are the charts.
Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 10/19/23

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Hi Everyone,
 
Last week we had an error on the CIMS Debut and Vinyl Debut charts due to a missing UPC in the feed. Our number one title on both debut charts was actually A.F.I.- Sing The Sorrow which was a title that came through ThinkIndie Distribution/UMe and since it is always nice to sit at number 1, I wanted to give proper credit where credit was due. We have corrected those charts and are resubmitting with this week's info.

Thanks,
Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 10/14/23

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Hi everyone,

In communications with various industry groups, the data analytics company Luminate has announced a dramatic change in the method used to calculate physical sales from independent retailers, set to go into effect 12/29/23. The details disclosed lead us to expect charts and data that show an abrupt, inaccurate and misleading physical market collapse immediately in Q1 2024.

The rise in physical sales in general -- and vinyl sales in particular -- has been a positive story in the music industry for over a decade. Independently-owned record stores have provided the music business with sustained positive media attention, as well as an entry point to music for consumers. The new leadership at Luminate, along with Billboard, has created and implemented new rules, changed guidelines and defined chart ineligibility in ways that have been damaging to record stores, labels and artists. Regardless of this, as coalitions and as Record Store Day organizers, we have worked for eighteen months to increase the number of stores reporting to Luminate, despite the confusion and lack of clarity in that process. As of today, the number of reporting accounts is 72, representing less than 5% of the indie record store base of over 1400 storefronts. We have seen little to indicate that the number of reporting stores necessary to prevent a perceived market share collapse when these changes are implemented is attainable by the end of the year. 

Our desire to be true partners in the effort to raise the number of reporting stores, thereby increasing the accuracy of the crucial data provided to labels, artists and management for decisions that will affect the entire industry has not been matched by Luminate. The changes laid out for the end of the year, which will affect not only the charts and data, but will directly impact over 1400 independently-owned businesses did not include input or approval from the record stores, from artist managers, or record labels. 
 
To be clear: the negative impact to the charts in January 2024 will be due to Luminate's decision to abruptly change how physical reporting is collected and calculated. We call for record labels, vinyl manufacturing plants, distribution companies, and record stores to be aware of this, and to work together against this inexplicable but blatant attempt to diminish the importance of the physical market to the music business ecosystem.

Alliance of Independent Media Stores
Amoeba Music
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
Dept of Record Stores
F.A.M.S. (Forever A Music Store) Coalition 


Here are the charts for the week.
Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 9/14/23

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Hi Everyone,
 
This week I am thrilled to announce that we have a new addition to the Coalition of Independent Record Stores. We are proud to add Rust & Wax in West Palm Beach, Florida to our CIMS roster!
 
One thing that really stands out to me about our organization is that despite our stores being their own independent establishments, there is definitely a common thread that runs throughout our group. It is one of the reasons we don’t add stores very quickly. We like to really take the time to get to know the individuals behind the business and make sure that not only are they a good fit for CIMS, but that CIMS is also a good fit for their shop.
 
I have enjoyed getting to know Melanie and Jesse Feldman, owners of Rust & Wax, as we have gone through this process, and one of my favorite things is learning about how all of these amazing record stores got their start. I guess I am a sucker for a good origin story, and I have heard some great ones over the years.
 
As our newest member of CIMS, I thought it would be nice to share one of those exciting origin stories with you, in the words of Melanie and Jesse themselves.
 
So please read on and without further ado, please meet Rust and Wax!

Rust & Wax Record Shop in its current form was born in November of 2020, but our shop has been around in some capacity since 2014.  
 
We started this as a weekend side hustle while both of us worked our full-time careers (Melanie in social media marketing, Jesse as an attorney).  With this new venture, we found ourselves popping up at local indie markets across the state of Florida each weekend selling records and an assortment of vintage goods (hence the “Rust”). This path eventually led to us getting recruited to open a small record shop inside a local collective of makers called Elizabeth Ave Station (“The Station”) in West Palm Beach, FL.
 
Over a period of 2 1/2 years, our small record shop inside The Station kept growing in size, starting with only two bins of records and eventually growing to close to twenty bins.  We held in-stores with Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, The Jacuzzi Boys, and more. And most importantly, we built an awesome community of fellow local music-lovers.  Things were looking up.  Then Covid hit, The Station (and our shop) closed, and we were forced to move all of our inventory into our house.  We thought our record shop dream was dead.
 
In order to stay connected to our customers, we started hosting weekly live-stream sales over Instagram, all while continuing to work our full-time jobs from home during lockdown.  It was during this time we both realized the world could end, or we could be gone in an instant, and we knew we didn’t want to go out as anything but record shop owners.  So we made the decision to quit the careers that we hated and go all in on the record shop.  
 
We leased a new standalone space in the same neighborhood as our old home at The Station and, in November of 2020, in the middle of a global pandemic, we opened our doors for the first time.  
 
This November will mark three years of our shop being open.  In those three years, we’ve held an in-store with the Scone Cash Players, several incredible Record Store Day events, many amazing listening parties, and thankfully have watched as our local vinyl community has continued to grow and flourish. 
 
We are grateful to be West Palm Beach’s friendly neighborhood record shop.  We are also grateful, and consider ourselves very lucky, to be joining CIMS and the incredible group of stores in the coalition.  

Here are the charts for the week.
Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 9/7/23

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Hi Everyone,
 
Here are the charts for the week.

Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

The Chemical Brothers
For That Beautiful Feeling
(Republic)
 

Nick Campbell - ThinkIndie Warehouse Manager
Boy, I really like this new Chemical Brothers album. Heck, I think this thing is jazzy and cool.

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 8/24-23

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Hi Everyone,
 
Here are the charts for the week.

Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic

Far From Saints
Far From Saints
(Ignition Records)
 

Scott Register - ThinkIndie A&R
Can’t stop listening to this new album from Far From Saints (Kelly Jones of Stereophonics, Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker of The Wind And The Wave). I’ve always been a Steroohonics fan and Kelly has a unique voice that is hard not to recognize. Paired with Lynn’s vocals, magic occurs and these modern folk songs take flight. The album is currently on repeat and giving me the therapeutic help I need. Looking for something new that makes you love music again? This could be the album. Fleetwood Mac, The Civil Wars, The Swell Season… vibes abound.

CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 8/10/23

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Hi Everyone,
 
This time last week we were wrapping the last day of RSD Summer Camp. What a whirlwind it all was! I can truly say this is one of my favorite projects to work on and be a part of planning. This was our largest Summer Camp so far, and to bring together so many amazing stores and industry members in one city to have the conversations and interactions that we did was truly exciting.

Of course, we need to send a gigantic thank you to all the labels, distribution, one-stops, and vendors that came out in full force to help us pull this off. Your support of this event and our organizations are never forgotten. I would like to thank all our special guests, speakers and panelists for making sure we had lots of good things to talk about, and all our sponsors for helping us pull it off- especially Marshall and Deer Park/Crosley. A special thanks to Redeye, Euclid and Verve for helping to welcome us to the Big Easy, Amped and Tommy Boy records for helping us bring a little (De La) Soul to our event, ADA/BMG for the late-night tunes, ATO Records/Virgin/UMG and Eric Burton of the Black Pumas for a special conversation, Virgin Records and Czarface for keeping us cool by the pool, Thirty Tigers/The Orchard and The Shindellas for getting us going in the morning, Eleni and Q-Prime/ADA and John Dyer Baizley of Baroness for keeping it real when it comes to true music artistry and the critical role record stores can play in inspiring and facilitating that.

Finally, a massive thank you to the Hotel Monteleone for being our home away from home for the week and for taking such good care of us!
 
I loved seeing you all this year, and Carrie and I are already excited to get to work on 2024!
 
Here are the charts for the week.

Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
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CIMS WEEKLY CHARTS: WEEK ENDING 7/27/23

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Hi Everyone,
 
I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of you next week at Summer Camp for a few fun-filled days of discussions and hangs.

Here are the charts for the week.
Andrea 

Andrea Paschal
Executive Director
Coalition of Independent Music Stores
ThinkIndie Distribution
3738 4th Terrace North
Birmingham, AL 35222
Phone: 205.595.1932 x.208
Fax: 205.595.1938
Email : andrea@cimsmusic.com
cimsmusic.com
#cimsmusic