Album Cover Conventions

Typical conventions that an album cover has includes
- A close up or mid shot of the artist in a provocative and visually enticing pose. Clothing is reflective of the genre for example a hip hop group would have a gangster aesthetic, with a dark colour scheme to reflect the mysterious and anti authority rebel ideologies.
Juxtaposing this would be a pop artist, which would traditional include bright colours to connote the optimistic,good nature of the music.

- Name of the artist on the front, in a font that coincides with the genre, in the case of B Money it may be in graffi or something along them lines. Anything connoteing rebelious behaviour.

- Conventionally the name of the album reflects the overall ideologies of the album and what messages the artist is trying to convey about society, music and the media to their audience.
Artist such as Kid Cudi named his album 'Man On The Moon' to give a sene that hes 'out of this world' perhaps or in just some cases a idea that music to him is his way to get away from the troubles of life. I go into more detail about this in my analysis of the album cover to Eminems 'Recovery'

-Genre and lifestyle demographics can clearly be seen through not only the photography style of the album photography but also what symbols they use to connote ideas.

Album covers are extremely important as even through the sales of CD albums are decreasing,the covers are still being used through downloading websites such as itunes or in some cases the illegal downloading sites and continue to be a important part in marketing a artist and signifying the theme, beliefs and ideas behind a album and the artist.