A good album cover adheres to basic design principles. A great album cover has a layer of cultural commentary. And a fantastic album cover understands both while maybe breaking some rules.

Braúlio Amado, creator of a Fall River mural, is nominated for a 2026 Grammy and designed the cover of Harry Styles' new ...

Bad Bunny spotlighted the monobloc chair on the cover of his Grammy-winning album – this is how it became (in)famous ...

The best or worst years of an artist’s career can be defined by a single square image. Album cover art is often the first step toward that album’s reception — good or bad — and we often associate the ...

Joy Feuer insists that she has always seen the sound of music and the images behind it as inseparable. From the looks of the crowds pouring into the Art of Music Experience at the Orange County Fair ...

Music videos in the 1980s were to music what the album cover art of the 1970s was to musicians. You bought hook, line, and sinker into these albums based on their cover art, not the snippets you might ...

Nearly 50 years after the category was renamed to Best Recording Package, the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover is making its ...

Hubris, lack of taste, massive amounts of drugs: There are many reasons for terrible album covers. This gallery collects 50 of the worst. Enter the carnival tent to witness the monstrosities, the ...