Conventions of Album Covers

I looked at the key features of Album Covers and found that these were common features.

Front:

• Main image 
• Name of artist 
• Title of Album 
• Band logo

Back: 

• Track list 
• Special features 
• Another prominent image under the text 

Institutional Information: 

• Bar-code
• Record Label 
• Year of publishing 
• Copyright
• Individual track writers, composers, engineers, producers etc.
• Reference Number 
• Band Members
• Guest performers  

Spine:

• Name of artist
• Title of Album 
• Record Label
• Reference Number 

Inserts: 

• Futher insitutional information for each individual track 
• Song lyrics 
• Photographs of Artist 
• Thank Yous

I have shown some of these features on Lana del Rey's "Born to Die" Album.