Every great record store deserves a public record.
Build a permanent record of your community's taste — before the charts catch up.
Independent record stores have always discovered music before algorithms.
Every great record store has someone whose recommendations people trust. Maybe it's the owner. Maybe it's the person behind the counter who's always playing something you've never heard.
Long before an album charts, those conversations are already happening — at the register, in the racks, on a handwritten staff pick taped to the shelf. The staff pick comes down eventually. Then it's gone.
A Home Store keeps it. Your community's calls, your store's consensus, your best ears — locked, scored, and published on a permanent page that carries your store's name. People don't just join CRI. They become part of your community. And every week, your store's record grows.
Your store becomes known for calling it early. Everything else on this page is evidence.
What your store page becomes
CONCEPT PREVIEW
HILLSIDE RECORDS
YOUR CITY · HOME STORE SINCE 2026
CALLED FIRST
Fontaines D.C. · Waxahatchee · MJ Lenderman
A permanent public page with your store's name on it — built from your community's real calls.
What your store gets
Community Heat
See what your regulars are backing this week — while the window is still open and the outcome is still unknown.
Store Leaderboard
Your community's best ears, ranked. Regulars come back to defend their spot.
Community Wantlist
Know what to stock before the distributor's one-sheet tells you.
Store Signature Calls
When your community calls it first, that's on the record forever — with your store's name on it.
Weekly Report
Walk into Monday already knowing what your community was talking about all weekend.
Public Store Record
A permanent page that says: this community heard it first.
Three steps to being on the record.
01 —
Claim your store
We set up your public Store Record and Home Store page.
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Members call your store home
Anyone who joins CRI can choose your store as their Home Store.
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Your record builds
Every Heat adds your community's calls, consensus, and resolutions to your public page.
Put your store on the record.
Founding stores join before the network opens wide — and their records date from the start.
Founding store recognition is permanent · Prefer email? hello@cri.fm