These artwork guidelines are set by music platforms like Apple Music and Spotify, so please read them carefully to make sure there are no delays to your release.

Your artwork must adhere to the following guideline to be accepted by stores:

•  Artwork must be a high-resolution and high-quality image. It must not be blurry, pixelated, mismatched, misaligned, rotated or stretched in any way.

• Only include the text of the artist's name and release name (or an image with no text) on your artwork. Any other text such as website addresses, social media logos, handles, etc will not be accepted.

• The artist and release name on your artwork must match the meta-data you submit. 

• Only include parental advisory or explicit content icons if your release has explicit language.

• File format must be .jpg or .jpeg

• Image size must be at least 3000 x 3000 pixels.

• The artwork file size must be no larger than 10Mb.

• Resolution of 300 DPI if possible, however, we accept 180 DPI and above.

Explicit Content,

• Your artwork may also be rejected if it features graphic explicit content.

• Only include parental advisory or explicit content icons if your release has explicit language.

Images and Artwork Copyright

• When finding images and graphics online be careful not to use graphic material that you do not have the copyright or do not have written Copywrite permission to use.

• Getty Images and iStock will come after you and find you. You will have to pull your graphic down.