Record stores in Beirut

Beirut, Beirut has 7 record stores on the map. That's 7 record shops mapped around Beirut. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Beirut (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include محلات فرجين and Hakim, plus Darkso. If a record shop's missing from Beirut's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Beirut record lineup

7 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Beirut

None of the 7 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.

The Beirut record crawl

The efficient Beirut record crawl strings these together: محلات فرجين, Hakim, Darkso, fame, UltraSounds, Peter's, and rmc — 7 stops, one logical order.

Record digging tips for Beirut

A few things worth knowing before you work through Beirut's record stores:

• Ask the staff what's new at محلات فرجين. Shop staff know what's just come in and what's about to. One question can save an hour of digging.
• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve at Hakim. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.
• Hit the new-arrivals bin first. That's where fresh stock lands before anyone else sees it. The good stuff rarely survives the week.
• Sleeves matter for value. Original inner sleeves, inserts, posters — completeness counts. A bare record in a generic sleeve is worth less.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Beirut — 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 Beirut can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 7 that's closed, or a great record store we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

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 7 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.