Albums being less relevant obviously means that album covers will be less relevant but I think that visual artwork is still a prominent feature of music just in different forms. The main barrier to being iconic is just the general degree of diversity and stratification of music taste in modern times which is the real reason that most examples in this thread are from the payola era of the music industry.
Albums being less relevant obviously means that album covers will be less relevant but I think that visual artwork is still a prominent feature of music just in different forms. The main barrier to being iconic is just the general degree of diversity and stratification of music taste in modern times which is the real reason that most examples in this thread are from the payola era of the music industry.