Record Store Day in Oslo, Norway
Two dates to know: Record Store Day Black Friday is Friday, November 29, 2026, and the next main Record Store Day is Saturday, April 17, 2027.
What is Record Store Day?
Record Store Day is an annual event built around independent record stores. The main event traditionally lands on the third Saturday of April each year; Record Store Day Black Friday is traditionally held the day after US Thanksgiving. Both days bring exclusive, limited-run vinyl and CD releases sold only at participating independent shops — not big-box retailers, and not mail order until the in-store exclusives sell through. Because pressings are limited, popular titles can sell out within the first hour, which is why a line-early culture has grown up around the day even at shops that are otherwise quiet on a weekday morning.
Tips for the day
- Arrive early. At busy shops, lines for popular titles can start well before opening.
- Bring cash. A cash line often moves faster than card on a shop's highest-volume day of the year.
- Check each shop's own site or Instagram in the week before the date — participating shops post their own opening time, line policy, and which exclusive titles they've ordered in.
- Release lists are first-come, first-served and vary store to store. A title in stock at one shop may not show up at another, even across town.
- Expect one-per-customer or per-household limits on the most in-demand titles.
- Not every independent record store participates every year, and allocations vary shop to shop — confirm directly with the shop rather than assuming based on a past year.
Shops to check in Oslo, Norway
Independent record shops open in Oslo, Norway right now. We don't yet track which specific shops participate in Record Store Day or what they've ordered in for a given year — check each shop's own site or Instagram close to the date for their exclusive-release list, opening time, and line policy.
- Adamstuen Retro
Adamstua secondhand shop selling CDs and LPs alongside films, comics, PC and video games, consoles and trading cards.
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- Baklengs
Oslo shop founded in 2016 selling new and used vinyl with a big focus on electronic music — house, techno, dub, ambient, reggae and breakbeat — plus art prints and books.
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- Big Dipper
Started in Grünerløkka in 1999, now a central-Oslo music hub with a huge selection of new and used vinyl across genres alongside curated hi-fi gear, turntables and music books.
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- Filter Musikk
Oslo's finest recordshop for electronic music since 2000, run by DJ/producer Roland Lifjell, with a deep curated vinyl selection alongside synthesizers, DJ gear and eurorack modules.
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- Kampen Vinyl
Dedicated jazz vinyl shop on Kampen, hand-selecting used and rare LPs from the 1950s onward from labels like Blue Note, ECM, Impulse! and Prestige, and buying jazz collections from around Norway.
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- Katakomben
Underground extreme-metal record shop near Rockefeller and Sentrum Scene, run jointly by labels No Posers Please!, Duplicate Records and Apocalyptic Empire, selling new vinyl, CDs and merch.
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- Lucky Eddie
Haga vintage shop mixing comics and books with a well-loved crate of second-hand vinyl spanning 70s rock to 60s soul, plus CDs and DVDs — buys and sells across all categories.
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- Neseblod Records
Oslo institution run by metal enthusiast Kenneth Neseblod — part record shop, part Norwegian black metal museum, with vinyl, CDs, tapes, vintage merch and a small exhibition on the scene's history.
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- Platebutikken Tiger
Independent record store behind the Fysisk Format label and Diger distribution, in Oslo city center since 1996 — relocated 100m to Bernt Ankers gate in 2022, stocking around 40,000 vinyl records.
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- Platelageret
Hidden basement vinyl warehouse in Grønland with a vast, cramped collection spanning a wide range of genres — a time-capsule stop for Oslo collectors.
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- Råkk & Rålls
Central Oslo's 'music oasis' since 1992 — a large physical-only secondhand shop for vinyl, CDs, cassettes and DVDs spanning punk, hardcore, metal, jazz and more, plus posters and memorabilia.
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- Stein og Jord Platebar
Sentrum record bar selling new vinyl — psychedelia, punk, metal, electro/noise and jazz from around the world, stored in crates — with in-house listening facilities and a Tandberg amplifier, doubling as a live-music venue.
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- The Garden
Two-floor 'vinyl mecca' next door to Filter Musikk in central Oslo, run by the same team as Bergen's Apollon — new vinyl on the ground floor, used crates of rock, pop, world and jazz in the basement.
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See the full record store listing for Oslo, Norway.