The typical features of an album cover are a way for the consumer to identify the contents of the music product and used as an identifiable image for people so they know what band or artist the album belongs to and in being able to recognise this from the cover art they can then make a decision about whether to buy the product or not. Another feature of an album cover could be the band or the “MEAT” on the front and this helps to sell the album, as again it is instantaneously recognizable. All of my chosen album covers that I am analysing have the same feature and that is of an identifiable image. The Fall Out Boy album has a person in a bear costume carrying a bear on their shoulders and fans of the band would recognise the cover immediately, the All American Rejects cover has the band themselves on it as well as the bands logo which is instantly recognisable by fans, the Gorillaz cover has the cartoon characters of the band on and again that would be an identifiable image, finally the Black Eyed Peas cover and the BloodHound Gang cover are identifiable as it has the name of the band on as well as and image that doesn’t specifically have anything to do with the band or album on it.
3 of the 5 album cover do not depict the band members on them and this shows that they can be categorised as bands that do not need the appearance of an artist to sell their product whereas the other two albums the show the band members can be categorised as bands that may need to show the artist to get sales but that does not mean that they put the image of the band on the cover in this case as the band may have been put on as an identifiable image for fans to easily recognise or they may simply have just preferred to put the band on anyway.
The purposes of these album covers are mainly for sales. Other functions can be to promote the band and act as a primary image for fans/consumers to recognize.
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