Record stores in Addis Ababa

Record shops reward the patient digger. Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped record shop in Addis Ababa — dig deep, and ask the staff what's new in the bins. Check the grading before you pay — a visual grade and a play grade are two different things.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Addis Ababa (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Lala Audio-video. If a record shop's missing from Addis Ababa's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Addis Ababa record lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Addis Ababa

None of the 1 has opening hours in the map data, so treat this as a browse-and-discover trip. Record shops keep fairly standard retail hours; daytime visits are a safe bet.

Record digging tips for Addis Ababa

Digging in Addis Ababa? A few habits pay off:

• Ask the staff what's new at Lala Audio-video. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• Learn your labels. Certain labels mean certain quality. A quick education in the labels of your favourite genres pays off fast.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Addis Ababa — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Addis Ababa can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 1, or a record store we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 1 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.