Record stores in Lagos

Record shops reward the patient digger. Lagos, Lagos has 1 mapped right now. Just the one mapped record shop in Lagos — 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 Lagos (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is The Jazzhole. If a record shop's missing from Lagos's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Lagos record lineup

1 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Lagos

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 Lagos

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

• Check for warps in the shop at The Jazzhole. Hold the record at eye level and sight along it. Warps that look minor at home look obvious in the store.
• Check the vinyl, not just the sleeve. Slide it out (carefully, by the edges) and look at it in good light. Sleeves lie; vinyl doesn't.
• Buy the weird stuff. Private pressings, local bands, oddball compilations — the strange records are the ones that appreciate.
• 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 Lagos — 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 Lagos can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 1 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 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.