Album Covers analysis

The typical features of an album cover include the artists name and the title of the album, however this is not always the case. If an artist is more established and have already released a number of albums they don't need to include their names, the title of the album or even a photo of themselves. An example of this is Rihanna, she's now onto her fourth album into her career and she's an established artist and this album is called Rated R and is in very small letters in the bottom right hand corner of the cover and because of the dark colours it can hardly be seen also instead of putting her name she's just put an 'R' to symbolise this and she announced in an interview that this is her new logo. Eminem's the same he's been around for more than 10 years and the public can relate to him so therefore on his latest album he doesn't include his name but because its a hip hop album and contains a lot of strong language it has the warning 'parental advisory explicit content'. With the Black Eyed Peas' latest album it doesn't contain a picture of them on the front cover however all of their other albums have, this album has a futuristic vibe to it and contains a robot on the front cover and the Black Eyed Peas announced in an interview that that image was all of their faces put together. Many artists who are releasing debut albums for the first time need to include their name the album name and an image of themselves in order to get the public used to them. An example of this is Lady gaga, The Fame Monster is her debut album, however this has now sold millions of copies worldwide and Lady gaga has become a global superstar in just over a year so for her next album she probably won't have to include the typical features of an album cover. Michael Jackson's Thriller is the biggest selling album of all time and in 2008 it got a re release for its 25th anniversary to include a DVD with all his videos on, remixes of some of his tracks, collaborations with Will.i.am, Kanye West, Akon and Fergie and a couple of new tracks. The album cover is very similar to the original but with gold bits on and better graphics and photography which would have improved over the years since it was released. It also includes two golden discs a special edition book that features pictures behind the scenes of the making of the Thriller video.