R&B Album Covers Research

Britney Spears



From these two Britney Spears Covers you can see that she is the the center of her album and the cover to showing her. They are two clear different pictures and different images of her portraying her in two different ways. While Toxic is portraying a younger version and is creating a sex appeal to the audience her more recent album of Circus is portraying her as an innocent. It is appearing to be an older fashion with the hair and clothes and the look on her face. This seems to be a similar trend for female artist to be on the cover as this is seen from Shakira also.

Shakira



We can see Shakira is on the front and the center of the portrait. From the first Album cover from an older album, there is more of her figure and as Shakira developed she is known for her dancing and her star image has been similar throughout her career. Shakira genre of music is different to Britney Spears but they are both on the front of their album covers. This is seen also from Christina Aguilera, Cheryl Cole and Rihanna.


However, this is very different for the Indie Genre

Linkin Park & The Used



On both of these covers, neither of the artist are featured on the cover. The covers are representing the genre of the album and presenting the 'feel' of the album itself. This is very different to the solo female artists above. While they focus on Star image, this indie/rock genre focus on a representation of the album.

Looking at the two main genres which I would like to appeal to helps me to make crucial decisions about the album artwork and digipack which I will be creating. I will need to be sure that I include characteristics from both genres which will mean I will try and combine the two album works.