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33 RPM Vinyl Records: The Full-Length LP

33 1/3 RPM is the classic speed of the long-playing record. Since the LP arrived in 1948, it has been the standard way to hear a full album on vinyl: a 12-inch disc spinning at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, typically holding around 18 to 22 minutes of music per side. Our 33 RPM section is the heart of our vinyl records catalog, with tens of thousands of LPs across jazz, rock and pop, classical, blues, country, soundtracks and more, from new releases to audiophile reissues.

33 1/3 vs. 45 RPM: What's the Difference?

Spinning at 33 1/3 lets a whole album fit on one or two LPs, so you can settle in and listen without getting up every few songs. A 45 RPM pressing moves more groove past the stylus each second, which can bring a little more detail and dynamic ease, especially near the end of a side, but it usually spreads an album across more discs. Both can sound superb. As with record weight, the mastering, cutting and pressing matter far more than the speed alone. Many of our 33s are 180 gram vinyl or 200g heavyweight pressings.

Our Most Popular 33 RPM Pressings

These are the 33s our customers keep coming back for, across labels:

• Saturday Night In San Francisco: Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía's long-awaited follow-up to Friday Night In San Francisco, on Impex Records, our own audiophile label, and our best-selling 33 of all time.
• Who's Next: The Who's 1971 landmark as a numbered Analogue Productions UHQR, pressed on 200g vinyl at QRP.
• Time Out: The Dave Brubeck Quartet's jazz classic, cut at 33 1/3 by Bernie Grundman for Analogue Productions and pressed at QRP.
• America: America's chart-topping debut, featuring "A Horse with No Name," in Rhino's Reserve series, cut from the original analog tapes.
• Ingénue: k.d. lang's 1992 album, home of the Grammy-winning "Constant Craving," as a numbered, all-analog One-Step pressing from Because Sound Matters.

More Audiophile Labels on 33 RPM

• Impex Records: jazz and vocal favorites from Thelonious Monk, Jennifer Warnes, Patricia Barber and more.
• Analogue Productions: the UHQR series and a deep catalog of jazz, blues and rock reissues.
• Blue Note and Verve: the Tone Poet and Acoustic Sounds Series jazz reissues.
• Mobile Fidelity: limited UltraDisc One-Step editions.
• Rhino: the Rhino High Fidelity and Rhino Reserve series.

Keep Your LPs Sounding Their Best

Long album sides reward a clean record and a well-set-up turntable. A record cleaning machine, fresh inner sleeves and a good record clamp will help every side play quietly for years.