What is my vinyl record worth?
Most records people find at home sell for $5 to $20. What decides the rest is not the album — it’s which pressing you have, and what condition it’s in.
The same album can exist as a 1977 first press worth real money and a 2011 reissue worth the price of lunch. Everything below is about telling those apart — starting with how grading works.
To skip all of it for a record you’re holding, photograph the sleeve, the label or the barcode. The app matches it against 990,000 releases, names the edition and returns the range it sells for.
Open in the App StoreFree to try, iPhone, no account.How it works
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Photograph it. Cover, label or barcode — whichever is legible.
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We name the edition. Not just the album: year, label, catalog number, country, pressing variant.
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You see the range. Built from completed sales, split by condition grade.
Why a range and not one price
A single number would be wrong most of the time. A 1977 first press and a 2011 reissue share a title and nothing else. Two copies of the same press — one played weekly since college, one stored flat — differ by five times.
Dealers know this, which is why a shop offers 25 to 40 percent of retail. Knowing the range is the whole difference in that conversation. You can check your own copy in RecordScout before you walk in.