Record Store Day’s 2024 List, Genre by Genre: Vinyl Exclusives From Noah Kahan, the Weeknd, Paramore, Talking Heads, the Beatles, Bowie and More

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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic If you’ve gotten a good look at the just-released list of Record Store Day 2024 exclusives due to hit indie stores on April 20, you may rightly feel overwhelmed: It includes no less than 387 titles.

Seriously perusing the lineup can easily amount to a full day’s work, if you’re the kind of omnivore who’s prone to clicking on each alphabetically arranged title to look for content, vinyl colors (black being much more the exception than the rule these days) and — the most trepidatiously approached information of all — how many or how few copies were pressed.

If you don’t have all those hours to spare, Variety is here to help sift through that information overload just a little. We’ve broken down some 2024 list highlights by categories, to give you a head start if classic rock, hip-hop, jazz, country or contemporary pop is your primary thing.

We’ve only scratched the surface of the 387 — the full list of which you’ll eventually want to refer to, here — but we can point you toward some of the most likely to be sought after after titles, including high-profile exclusives from the Weeknd, Paramore, Noah Kahan, Pearl Jam, Talking Heads, David Bowie and the Beatles (collectively, plus three out of four as soloists), along with hundreds of cult-ier favorites.