Most Popular Vinyl Record in Massachusetts

Vinyl records: Are you kidding?

With so many ways to gain access and listen to your favorite music nowadays, you would think vinyl records on a record player are a thing of the past. Not so fast my friend.

With April 20 being celebrated as Record Store Day and the continued rise in the popularity of records, BetMassachusetts.com took a break from Massachusetts sports betting and utilized Google Trends to find the vinyl record that was the most searched in each state over the last 12 months (April 2023 to April 2024).

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Massachusetts’ Most Popular Vinyl Record

Rank	Record	Artist
1	Stick Season	Noah Kahan

Vinyl Record Popular in Most States

Rank	Record (Artist)	No. of States
1	Guts (Olivia Rodrigo)	10
2	Stick Season (Noah Kahan)	9
T3	1989 (Taylor Swift)	8
T3	Cowboy Carter (Beyonce)	8
5	Utopia (Travis Scott)	6
6	Folklore (Taylor Swift)	3
7	Speak Now (Taylor Swift)	2
T8	Abbey Road (The Beatles)	1
T8	Reputation (Taylor Swift)	1
T8	K-12 (Melanie Martinez)	1
T8	Barbie Album (Soundtrack)	1

Stick Season is Tops in Massachusetts

The top vinyl record in the Commonwealth is: Stick Season by Noah Kahan. Stick Season was second on the list, topping nine states (Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Vermont and Wisconsin).

Guts by Olivia Rodrigo topped the list with a No. 1 ranking in 10 states (California, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, Washington and West Virginia).

Kahan, a Strafford, Vermont native, released Stick Season as his third studio album in October 2022 after he started writing the album in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Other New England states’ top vinyl record are: UTOPIA by Travis Scott (Connecticut), 1989 (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift (Maine), and Cowboy Carter by Beyonce (Rhode Island).

Celebrating its 17th anniversary this year, Record Store Day was first celebrated in April 2007 and is aimed at bringing together fans, artists, and thousands of independent record stores around the nation and the world. BetMassachusetts.com is committed to bringing together the state’s best sports betting information and Massachusetts sportsbook promos.

Author

Lou Monaco

@loumonaco

Lou Monaco had been East Coast Scene columnist for Gaming Today in Las Vegas since June 2019, covering the East Coast sportsbook scene. He also currently is a part-time writer for the high school sports department for NJ Advanced Media (NJ.com) in Iselin, NJ. Lou has over 30 years sports experience with previous stints at ESPN SportsTicker, Daily Racing Form and Oddschecker.