The exact 'artist name' and 'album name' must be displayed on the cover and match with the metadata. The standard format for digital album artwork is a 1400 x 1400 pixels JPG but iTunes recently updated their requirements to 3000 x 3000 pixels. Be certain that you don't use too small of an image and then stretch it because it will be blurry.
Technical requirements and specificationsYou want to make sure that your artwork meets all the required specifications the first time you upload. At the end of the long process of writing, recording, and releasing an album, it would be a shame for people not to give it a listen because the artwork looked bad on their screen. From this experience I've learned to pay attention to details and never completely leave those details up for someone else to take care of. Though my album looked very attractive physically it looked like a rough pixelated orange cheesy omelet online and not so many people bought digital downloads even though I had a ton of fantastic reviews from the music blogs and press. The resolution formats were different for the CD pressing plant than they were for the net. Neither the record label I was working with or I knew much about the importance of image quality standards when it came to digital distribution and online press. Don't make my mistake!On the first album, I released in Europe I had blurry album artwork all over the internet. With the 'come-back' of the vinyl gaining momentum we will have the best of both worlds- the reach and convenience of digital albums together with the physical quality and artistic craft of vinyl. Today with these digital data squares representing us as musicians we have more opportunity to get our image and music out to more new fans than ever before. Then with the Tape and CD came along a smaller rectangle and square with its internal artwork and little lyric booklets. Whereas back in the day of LP's you literally had to go to the record store to see it, or perhaps there was a snapshot of it in a newspaper or magazine. Most all new album artwork is initially viewed on the computer or smart-phone screen and it is a little square that you can't really touch. Our first hand feeling with album art is just not so physical anymore. Physical and digital squaresEveryone loves a good album cover but it's not quite the same as it used to be. It is with record cover artwork that music became a leading influence in fashion, politics, and social identity. Perhaps the biggest effect that the record cover has had on society is the branding of a particular kind of lifestyle. A big square with a picture scene on it that represented what the artist and their music were all about. It sounds like nice advice my grandma might give me but in reality, we do indeed actually judge almost everything by its initial appearance, especially music album covers! Since the invention of the LP back in 1948, the entire recording industry adopted the concept of using the record cover as one of its main marketing tools. Record cover historyĮver heard of the old wise saying 'never judge a book by its cover'. His reply was 'to tell you the truth I really don't have any idea what the music is like on these records but I know that people like to buy this one here in the middle because of the cover artwork', and he pointed at one of the 10“ records sitting square in the center of the table.
I was standing around in the hallway entrance of the Heimathafen in Berlin waiting for City Slang artist 'Get Well Soon' to begin their concert when I went and asked the seller at the merchandise table about which album he would recommend buying. What people pay attention toJanuary 21st, 2015.
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