Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Music equipment distributors worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,535 music equipment distributors worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 39,830 professional contacts across them, including 9,401 with verified work emails and 0 with mobile numbers. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers music equipment distributors worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026. Country and city lists for music equipment distributors follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest music equipment distributors worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,225 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We exist so music can persist.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 6,091 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The first Music & Arts, run by founder Benjamin O’Brien, opened in 1952 and was located in a small house in Bethesda, MD.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,953 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since 1946, Fender has revolutionized music and culture as one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,540 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1979, Sweetwater has been committed to giving music makers the ultimate shopping experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 979 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Jack Long was a professional trumpet player who, in 1956, thought that maybe he could sell instruments to some of his friends in the musical community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 508 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For over sixty years, we’ve amplified the sound of the world’s most talented artists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 459 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wenger Corporation is a privately-held, leading manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, innovative products and services for customers across a variety of exciting markets with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 352 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With around 1.800 employees, Musikhaus Thomann is world's largest mail-order company for instruments and equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 330 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Conn Selmer is the leading manufacturer and distributor of musical instruments for students and professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Musician's Friend, we know the importance of getting gear that's the best fit for you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Comercial e Importadora Audiomusica SpA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 266 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SFM fournit des solutions clés en main personnalisées aux marques internationales dans les domaines de l’audiovisuel, du spectacle et de la production médiatique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The world’s leading B2B distributor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 230 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee, Ingram Entertainment is a national distributor of entertainment hardware and software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Gear4music is one of Europe’s leading online retailers of musical instruments and music equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “GAK is one of the UK's leading Musical Instrument and equipment retailers, with 30 years in business, working to help, advise and supply musicians, enthusiasts, venues and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Leader de la distribution d’instruments de musique et de matériel audio en France, Algam réunit une grande famille de passionné(e)s (250 salariés pour être exact) de musique et de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Adam Hall Group is a leading German manufacturer and distribution company that provides event technology solutions to business customers worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1963 Korg USA Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Schmitt Music you'll find the best brands and a great selection of band and orchestra instruments, acoustic & digital pianos, sheet music & books, accessories, guitars &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos uma empresa com 60 anos de experiência no ramo da distribuição.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “For more than 40 years, we’ve been the preferred choice for audio, video, lighting professionals, and musicians.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 173 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WE SUPPORT YOUR STAGE Muziek is passie en beleving en daar wil Bax Music niet alleen deel van uitmaken, maar ook het verschil in maken.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the corporate parent of the Mackie brand, LOUD Audio, LLC, engineers, markets, and distributes professional audio gear worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Supporting our local music community by providing the very best in instruments, services, and education.#tomleemusic” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: music equipment distributors. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names music equipment distributors.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of music equipment distributors, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name music equipment distributors. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Music equipment distributors worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among music equipment distributors, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- 18 countries, largest first: the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, India, France, Italy, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain and 8 more. Country and city lists for music equipment distributors are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “music equipment distributors”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names music equipment distributors), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among music equipment distributors, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 9,401 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Music equipment distributors by location
18 lists · largest firstEvery Music equipment distributors list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Music equipment distributors based in the United States874
- Music equipment distributors based in the United Kingdom259
- Music equipment distributors based in Brazil241
- Music equipment distributors based in Germany164
- Music equipment distributors based in India135
- Music equipment distributors based in France128
- Music equipment distributors based in Italy107
- Music equipment distributors based in Australia104
- Music equipment distributors based in the Netherlands99
- Music equipment distributors based in Spain93
- Music equipment distributors based in Canada90
- Music equipment distributors based in Sweden50
- Music equipment distributors based in Mexico38
- Music equipment distributors based in Switzerland34
- Music equipment distributors based in Chile32
- Music equipment distributors based in the United Arab Emirates32
- Music equipment distributors based in South Africa29
- Music equipment distributors based in Belgium26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names music equipment distributors, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many music equipment distributors are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,535 music equipment distributors worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
The Guitar Center Company, headquartered in Westlake Village, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most music equipment distributors?
The United States leads with 874 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (259) and Brazil (241). Every music equipment distributors list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most music equipment distributors?
Sao Paulo leads with 56 headquartered companies, followed by London (35) and Dubai (24).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 9,401 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,535 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.