National Vinyl Record Day

Name: National Vinyl Record Day
Start: 2026-08-12
End: 2026-08-12

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Drop the needle and celebrate the sound that refused to die.

National Vinyl Record Day, founded in 2002 by Gary Freiberg, celebrates recorded sound and the analog format that carried it for generations. The date honors August 12, 1877, the day often cited for Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph. After being written off in the digital age, vinyl has st