Record Store Day 2011
The fourth annual record store day took place on Saturday, April 16, 2011. The official ambassador for the event was Ozzy Osbourne. Over six-hundred artists celebrated the event with in-store appearances, making it the world's largest music event of its kind. Artists who made in-store appearances included Beastie Boys, the Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, My Chemical Romance, Wiz Khalifa, Todd Rundgren, Anvil, Del McCoury and the New Orleans Jazz Preservation Band, Regina Spektor, Jack White and Jerry Lee Lewis, the dBs, The Raveonettes, TV on the Radio, Frightened Rabbit, the Deftones, Chuck D, the Beach Boys's Al Jardine, Lonely Island, and Josh Groban. Most of the releases for the year were limited between 300 and 7000 copies worldwide. According to Billboard Magazine, the 182,000 bump in unit sales in the week that Record Store Day was held was directly attributed to the success of the event itself. The official film of the event was "Sound It Out", a feature-length documentary directed by Jeanie Finlay, documenting the Sound It Out Records shop in Stockton-on-Tees, the very last record shop in Teesside. The film premiered to critical acclaim at SxSW and had its joint premiere at SheffDocFest and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. During the year, the second Black Friday Record Store Day was also held, on November 25, 2011.
This year's releases included:
- Daft Punk
- Bruce Springsteen
- Tinie Tempah - "Wonderman" (7" Vinyl)
- Big Star
- The Decemberists
- Lady Gaga - "Born This Way" (12" Picture Disc Vinyl)
- The Rolling Stones
- R.E.M.
- A Day To Remember
- The Beach Boys - "Good Vibrations" (10" 78 RPM Vinyl)
- Doctor Who - "The 1960's Films OST" (7" Blue Vinyl, 500 Copies Only)
- The Doors
- Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" (7" Vinyl)
- Duran Duran
- Pinback
- Smerin's Anti Social Club - "Doctor Who" (7" Vinyl)
- Rush - "Caravan/BU2B" (7" Red Vinyl, 3000 Copies Only)
- Fleetwood Mac
- Gorillaz - "The Fall" (180g Numbered LP, 1500 Copies Only)
- Todd Rundgren - "Todd Rundgren's Johnson" (CD)
- Eric Clapton
- Yeasayer
- Of Montreal
- Manhattan Murder Mystery
- Professor Green - "The Remix EP" (12" Green Vinyl, 500 Copies Only)
- Neko Case - "My Design" (T-Shirt)
- Radiohead - "Supercollider/The Butcher"
- The Joy Formidable - "Whirring"
- Esben and the Witch - "Chorea"
Releases for the Black Friday Record Store Day included:
- The Beatles - "1's Singles Collection" (4x 7" Vinyl Box Set, 1000 Copies Only)
- Bob Dylan
- The Black Keys
- The Doors
- Janis Joplin
- John Lennon
- Kings of Leon
- Nirvana
- Pink Floyd
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Rolling Stones
- Ryan Adams
- Soundgarden
- Type O Negative
- Wilco
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