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Can Cover Art Affect Music Sales?

October 2nd, 2008 10:28am EDT Post a comment

Why do record labels and musicians put so much thought into the art work that will grace the covers of new releases to the public? If we were to consider the recent "friendly" album sales feud between

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Fri Oct 3 2008 08:39:04 By: RASHARPE (

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BACK IN THE DAYS OF VINYL THEY COULD, BUT WITH CD'S IT IS OVER.

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Fri Oct 17 2008 14:08:19 By: srollem (

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Wait, did you just say the most famed BLACK album is by the Beatles? The Beatles album is WHITE. Its Metallica who have the famous black album...

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Fri Oct 17 2008 14:11:50 By: srollem (

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Of these, the Coldplay one and Kanye's albums have the best artwork. The rest are rather boring. A good cover can catch the eye certainly, and allow you to pick it up in the store amongst the thousands of other records. The works of Storm Thorgensen are my personal favs, though Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull wins for the foldout being a complete newspaper, fantastic album too of course.

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