One album cover has been selected from each year, dating back to 1949, which is represented by Alex Steinweiss’s design for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 – created as an alternative to the plain sleeves ...

Whether decorated with a photo of a bustling subway stop or a striking Andy Warhol painting, album cover designs can constitute masterpieces in their own right, amplifying the artistry of the ...

With this in mind, we asked our readers to tell us the best album covers of all time, and their answers surprised us. They slipped back into the late ’60s, early 2000s, and even skipped over ...