Record stores in Manila

Record shops reward the patient digger. Manila, Metro Manila has 24 mapped right now. That's 24 record shops mapped around Manila. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. 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 Manila (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Lyric and Sportsmax, plus Jelmar Music and Sports. If a record shop's missing from Manila's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Manila record lineup

24 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Manila

3 of the 24 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

The Manila record crawl

Making a day of it in Manila? Work this order: Lyric on 434, Sportsmax on Gonzalo Puyat Street, Jelmar Music and Sports, Musicero on A. Bonifacio Avenue, Mamuad Music M. Planet Dj Records on Amang Rodriguez Avenue, Gold Digger Records, Astroplus, and RJ Guitar. That's the record crawl in one sensible loop, no backtracking. 16 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Manila

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

• Note the shop's specialties at Lyric. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.
• Learn the grading at Sportsmax. Mint, near mint, very good — and check whether the grade is visual or play-graded. A visual VG+ can play like an EX.
• Don't skip the 45s. The singles boxes get less traffic and hide great finds. B-sides are the deep cuts of record shopping.
• 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 Manila — 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 Manila can take a while to appear. The 24 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

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 24 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.