It was released on August 31, 2021 via S-Curve Records as a single from the deluxe version of Daisy the Great's second studio album All You Need Is Time.

[1] AJR's lead singer Jack Met later discovered the song, calling the chorus "the catchiest thing [the band had] ever heard" and stating "we thought if we could team up with the artists behind that hook and build a new song using the existing hook as the basis, it could be something pretty special".

[2] AJR reached out to Daisy the Great to collaborate on a remix of "The Record Player Song", featuring two new verses and additional production from Ryan Met.

[3] The remix released on August 31, 2021 under the new name "Record Player", and has amassed 42 million streams on Spotify as of December 14, 2022.

[6] On December 31, 2021 from 8:50 to 8:52 PM EST, AJR and Daisy the Great co-performed "Record Player" during Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.