National Jukebox Day
Crank up your favorite 50s tunes at a local greasy diner or tap into modern-day jukeboxes via the TouchTunes app to get the whole bar boogying.
Leverage nostalgia and modern music tech to drive foot traffic to bars and restaurants while promoting TouchTunes app engagement and user-generated content around jukebox memories.
- Share your jukebox memory: What song defined your night out? Tag us for a chance to win a free TouchTunes jukebox.
- Throwback Thursday meets Jukebox Day—spin your favorite 50s classic or today's hits at [venue name].
- TouchTunes sweepstake: Play your way to winning. Download the app and share your best jukebox moment.
The term jukebox was coined from the term ‘juke houses’ or ‘jook joints’, which were establishments in the early 1900s where people gather to drink and listen to music. The first jukebox was invented in 1889 when Louis Glass and William S. Arnold created the first coin-operated player.
From the 1930s to the late 1970s, jukeboxes soared in demand and went through many radical changes. However, it wasn’t until 2010 when TouchTunes, a music corporation that revolutionized the vintage jukebox with touch screens and mobile apps that interact with a person’s library.
TouchTunes then proclaimed National Jukebox Day as a national holiday in 2017 and since then has made a TouchTunes Jukebox sweepstake that allows a person to share their jukebox memories and play songs through their app to win prizes.
They founded this day as a day to celebrate the classical jukebox and the memories it evokes for people of all ages. This day also falls on the day that the first jukebox was invented, and since it occurs on the day before Thanksgiving, it happens to be when people travel to bars and restaurants to listen to their favorite music.
Is there anything as nostalgic as tuning up music that got its start on vinyl and LP’s before CD’s and DVD’s took over everything on the equipment that used to grace every club, restaurant, and bar?