Album Cover Conventions

I had a look at around ten randomly selected album covers from my collection and found that they all share certain features:

Common Features (front):

• Album name
• Band name
• Key image (artist or other icon)
• Theme (e.g. african art - Innervisions)
• Colour Scheme (e.g. underwater blue - Nevermind

Common Features (back):

• Track listings
• Often another picture
• Copyright stuff
• Date of release
• Record label
• Colour scheme (often consistent with front cover)
• Bar code

Common Features (inside):

• Booklet including: More details of copyright stuff, more pictures of the band, lyrics, credits.