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The Guitar Center Company Top 1% worldwide Top 1% in Hobbies & Creative Arts
guitarcenter.com·Since 1995

The Guitar Center Company: 10M visits a month, 204 active Meta ads.

The Guitar Center Company — The Guitar Center Company is a family of brands that sells musical instruments including guitars, basses, amplifiers, recording equipment, lighting, live sound, and DJ gear, along with services like lessons, rentals and repairs. In September 2026 guitarcenter.com drew an estimated 10M visits, down 3% on the month before. It ranks #2 of 32,083 Hobbies & Creative Arts brands and holds a 3.6 Trustpilot rating over 2,998 reviews.

guitarcenter.com@guitarcenter 1.4MFacebookLinkedIn 94.1KTrustpilot 3.6Meta Ad Library 204

Updated Traffic Sept 2026Meta ads 15 Oct 2026Google ads 21 Oct 2026Trustpilot Oct 2026

Estimated traffic
10M
−3% vs. August 2026
Instagram followers
1.4M
6,789 posts · @guitarcenter
Trustpilot
3.6
2,998 reviews · 338 in 12 months
Meta ads
204
active · on Google since 2022
Products
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Rank in United States
#2
of 32,083 in Hobbies & Creative Arts
LinkedIn
94.1K
followers · 16,436 employees
Earned media value
€221.9k
per month, Instagram

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About the store

The Guitar Center Company is a family of brands that sells musical instruments including guitars, basses, amplifiers, recording equipment, lighting, live sound, and DJ gear, along with services like lessons, rentals and repairs.

01 · Traffic

How much traffic The Guitar Center Company gets.

The traffic card of the Gravity brand page: the latest month and its two trends. The monthly curve, 24 months of history, the audience by country, the traffic sources and the category comparison are for members, free to start.

The Guitar Center Company drew an estimated 10M visits in September 2026, down 3% on the month before and up 1% over three months.

  • Worldwide#2,088of 4.5M sites · Top 1%
  • In United States#752of 1.2M sites · Top 1%
  • Hobbies & Creative Arts, worldwide#10of 136,278 brands · Top 1%
  • Hobbies & Creative Arts, United States#2of 32,083 brands · Top 1%
Monthly visitssource Sept 2026

10M

estimated visits in September

1 mo ▼ −2.7%4 mo ▲ +0.6%

The monthly curve, 24 months of history and the category comparison.

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02 · Reviews

What customers say about The Guitar Center Company.

The review cards of the Gravity brand page: the Trustpilot page, with its star distribution and the brand's tiers against the index, and the Google reviews. The TrustScore history and the review velocity against the category are for signed-in members.

The Guitar Center Company holds 3.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot over 2,998 reviews, 338 of them in the last twelve months: 51% of customers give five stars and 36% one star. That volume places The Guitar Center Company in the top 5 % of the 270,321 Trustpilot pages in the Gravity index.

Trustpilotclaimed page · read 21 Oct 2026
3.6TrustScore · 2,998 reviews · 338 in 12 months
Top 5% review volume
5 ★51%
4 ★3%
3 ★5%
2 ★5%
1 ★36%

Music Store

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Review velocity, TrustScore history and the category comparison are on the Gravity brand page.

03 · Products

What The Guitar Center Company sells, ranked by sales.

The top three products in the catalogue, in the store's own best-seller order, with price and stock. The full catalogue, the rankings over time and the ads that lead to each product are for signed-in members.

Gravity by Benchr has not read The Guitar Center Company's catalogue yet.

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Share of the catalogue by product family.

Activity mixdominant: Hobbies & Creative Arts
Hobbies & Creative Arts93%
Sheet Music2%
Audio1%

The dominant category places The Guitar Center Company in its comparison group.

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05 · Influencers

Who talks about The Guitar Center Company.

The creators who tag @guitarcenter on Instagram, found by Gravity by Benchr in their posts. One is shown here; the full list, the audiences and the contact details are for signed-in members.

Creators tag @guitarcenter on Instagram, led by Johnny Beane (15.4K followers, 0.1% engagement).

Influencersaccounts tagging @guitarcenter · Instagram
AccountProfileFollowersEngagementTagsRelationship
JJohnny Beane@evhgearlive · 🇺🇸 USMusic concerts dance Creator15.4K0.1%12Tagged @guitarcenter
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06 · Competitors according to Gravity

Who The Guitar Center Company competes with, by the numbers.

Gravity picks competitors from the index itself: same category, same market, similar size. The closest are named here; their figures, the full list and the side-by-side comparison are for subscribers.

Gravity by Benchr finds competitors for The Guitar Center Company among Hobbies & Creative Arts brands. The closest is gear4music.com, then Andertons Music Co, musiciansfriend.com, zZounds, Artist Guitars, The Music Site.

CompetitorsHobbies & Creative Arts · similarity out of 100
BrandSimilarityGravity scoreEst. trafficInstagramTrustpilotMeta adsProducts
gear4music.comgear4music.com
Andertons Music Coandertons.co.uk
musiciansfriend.commusiciansfriend.com
zZoundszzounds.com
Artist Guitarsartistguitars.com.au
The Music Sitetmsmusic.co
Competitors Gravity finds for The Guitar Center Company. Similarity, Gravity score, traffic, social, reviews, ads and catalogue are for subscribers.Compare The Guitar Center Company with gear4music.com

07 · Company

The company behind The Guitar Center Company.

Legal entity, funding and distribution, as the Company tab of the Gravity brand page shows them. Where Gravity has nothing on file, the line says so rather than disappearing.

The Guitar Center Company is an e-commerce brand, founded in 1964 according to LinkedIn, on a domain registered in March 1995. It employs about 16,436 people.

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Founded
1964, per LinkedIn
Domain registered
17 Mar 1995
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Employees
16,436 on LinkedIn
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DistributionGravity index, Sept 2026
Own store
guitarcenter.com
Catalogue
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Retailers
None recorded
Open jobs
None recorded

08 · What people ask about The Guitar Center Company

What people ask Google about The Guitar Center Company.

8 answers built from the data on this page, each one sourced to Gravity by Benchr, which say so when we don't know.

Is The Guitar Center Company legit?

According to Gravity by Benchr, The Guitar Center Company is a brand: its website has existed since March 1995, its Trustpilot profile is claimed by the brand, it employs 16,436 people on LinkedIn, it has 1,434,058 Instagram followers. Those are the marks of an established brand, not a pop-up shop. Source: Gravity by Benchr brand index, September 2026.

What do customers say about The Guitar Center Company?

Customers rate The Guitar Center Company 3.6 out of 5 on Trustpilot over 2,998 reviews, 338 of them in the last twelve months: 51% give five stars, 36% one star. Gravity by Benchr places that review volume in the top 5 % of the 270,321 Trustpilot pages in its index. Source: Gravity by Benchr Trustpilot reading, October 2026.

What is The Guitar Center Company?

The Guitar Center Company is a family of brands that sells musical instruments including guitars, basses, amplifiers, recording equipment, lighting, live sound, and DJ gear, along with services like lessons, rentals and repairs. Gravity by Benchr classifies it under Hobbies & Creative Arts. Source: Gravity by Benchr product classification.

The Guitar Center Company promo code

Gravity by Benchr does not collect discount codes. What Gravity observes: The Guitar Center Company advertises on Facebook and Instagram and on Google, where its offers often run. Check guitarcenter.com for current promotions. Source: Gravity by Benchr ad records, October 2026.

Who is behind The Guitar Center Company?

Gravity by Benchr records a company, founded in 1964 according to LinkedIn, on a domain registered in 1995, with 16,436 employees on LinkedIn. Gravity publishes no personal data about founders. Source: Gravity by Benchr company records.

Is The Guitar Center Company doing well?

Yes. Gravity by Benchr estimates about 9,977,600 visits to guitarcenter.com in September 2026, down 3% in a month and up 1% over three months. The Guitar Center Company ranks #2 of 32,083 Hobbies & Creative Arts brands in the Gravity index. Source: Gravity by Benchr estimated traffic, September 2026.

How much does The Guitar Center Company spend on Meta ads?

Gravity by Benchr does not publish a spend figure for The Guitar Center Company on this page. What Gravity observes: an active Meta advertiser, on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Audience Network, Threads, WhatsApp. The estimated monthly spend band, derived from the EU reach of each ad, is on the Gravity brand page. Source: Gravity by Benchr Meta Ad Library records, October 2026.

Who are the biggest Hobbies & Creative Arts brands?

Among Hobbies & Creative Arts brands in the Gravity by Benchr index, The Guitar Center Company ranks #2 of 32,083 by estimated traffic. Its closest competitors on the same market are gear4music.com, Andertons Music Co, musiciansfriend.com, zZounds, Artist Guitars. Source: Gravity by Benchr competitor analysis, same category, same market, similar size.

Gravity by Benchr indexes more than 4 million e-commerce brands across 150 countries. Figures on this page are estimates, updated monthly; the Gravity score is recomputed nightly. Not affiliated with The Guitar Center Company.