- Quality of images. The cover art must not be any of the following: blurry, pixelated, mismatched, cut, misaligned, rotated, incorrect, stretched, mirrored or have any other quality issues. Also, the textual information given must be fairly readable, trying to avoid designs which might difficult its comprehension, like smaller size texts or similar concepts.
- Accuracy. The information shown in the cover image should always match the information of the metadata as accurately as possible and without any class of abbreviation. Any information provided in the cover art must be justified in the metadata, but not strictly vice-versa. Please note that if the release is a single that belongs to an album, the name of the album cannot appear on the cover unless it is coherently justified on the metadata.
- Dimensions and file format. The cover art of all releases must accomplish with all following requirements:
- Proportion: exactly squared.
- Minimum size: 3000 x 3000 px.
- Maximum size: 5000 x 5000 px.
- Accepted formats: JPG, TIFF or PNG.
- Mode: RGB (CMYK is not available).
- Maximum size of file: 36 MB.
- White covers. Full-white covers are not allowed because channels tend to interpret it as an error.
- Links and web pages. The cover art can not contain website addresses, websites that sell music, mentions to social media, logos of any stores or services related to entertainment, mentions to physical formats, video formats or any external reference of the digital release.
- Telephone or email addresses. The cover art can not contain neither telephone numbers nor email addresses.
- Credits and collaborations. The cover art can include credits or other artists’ names, who are not the primary artists of the release as long as they are justified in the metadata. But at the same time, it is not permitted to show arbitrarily in the cover art only one of these artists and not the others, whichever is their role (producers, featuring artists, composers, lyricists, etc.). If one of them appears, the rest of the artists with the same role must appear too. The name of the primary artist must appear on the cover so that the other roles can appear on it.
- Tracklisting. The cover art can not contain the track listing.
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