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Album artwork has become more computer designed rather than handdrawn

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CD's have become less popular being replaced by MP3 Players

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Samsung's SPH-M2100, was the first Mobile phone to be produced with an inbuilt MP3 player.

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The first portable digital music player The Eiger MPMan was released featuring 6-12 songs worth of storage on it.

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Apple released the first iPod, with a whole 5GB of storage, this was the beginning of digital music players starting to become popular.

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Napster was launched meaning people could share music for free rather than buying albums

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MPEG formats were standardised and therefore allowed musically to be recorded and stored digitally.

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The first digital radio starts

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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980) 

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Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980) 

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Janes Addiction released Nothng's shocking, which had a rather shocking and memerable album cover

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CD were beginning to be used for music

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Sony released the first Home use CD player. (CDP101a)

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Appetite for destruction was released and it's origanl had to be changed as it was considered too controversial

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Led Zeppelin releases 'Houses of the Holy'.

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Sound stream are the first people to record their audio digitally.

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Cassette's decline rapidly and are replaced by CD's

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The first CD was created

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The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's '52 Street'

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The Sony Walkman was released allowing people to listen to cassettes whole moving.

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The mass production of Compact Cassettes began however these did not have the quality for music

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The Vietnam War

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Motown Started recording on 8-Track tapes

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The Sex Pistols released their only albuim, through AMI records.

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Rock and pop was becoming mainstream with record labels such as 'Abbey Road' and 'EMI' were involved in producing the labums.

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Blind Faith released 'Blind Faith' which was a controversial album cover as in had a naked pubescent girl on the front cover.

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Because of the size of the vinyls, album artwork was able to exapnd a lot due to the large area to design on.

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Andy Warhol does some album covers.

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Cheap Thrills' by Big Brother & The Holding Company was released. The artwork was by Robert Crump.

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Cassette tapes started to became more commercial and were used for album. This meant that album art had to become more compact than on vinyl covers.

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The Beatles produced their first Album 'Please Please Me'

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RCA created a cassette tape for home use

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The first Movie soundtrack was released. The Movie was 'Snow White & the Seven Dwarves'

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Hipgnosis was formed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell

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Abbey road studios was formed

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Neil Fujita worked at Columbia Record producing Album covers using modern art in his work to express the music of the artist.

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Tapes started to be made out of plastic rather than metal oxides.

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The Jazz record label, 'Blue Notes Record's was founded

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Reid Miles was hired by Blue Note to create album covers.

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Bebop and Blues original reissue by Curt John Witt

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Don Gabor who ten years earlier had founded Continental Record Company, officially announced that Curt John Witt was the new art director of Remington Records Inc.

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The first 45 rpm Vinyl single was released. (7 inch)

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The Multi-track tape recorder was invented by Ross Snyder at Ampex Studios. These became essential in recording studios for certain artists.

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The RIAA standardised Vinyl sizes to 12, 10 and 7 inch discs.

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The commercial first tape recorder was released (Soundmirror BK-401)

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Rock 'N' Roll started to spread and become popular across the world.

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The speed of record players had become standardised

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The first Long Playing records became available

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Kanye West released 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' and the original album artwork for it was banned.

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Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis designed the world renowned album cover for 'Dark Side of the Moon' and Hipgnosis gained major international prominence.

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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath album cover designed by Drew Struzan.

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Aladdin Sane was released. Photography on album cover by Brian Duffy.

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The Beatles released Abbey Road.

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The great depression led to a massive decrease in the sale of records.

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Jazz had started to spread around the world

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World War 1, Many people died, record production decreased as resources were needed for the war.

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Pre recorded radio programs were beginning to be produced on vinyls.

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World War 2, millions of people died.

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All the major companies had designed paper covers for their records, in all sizes. Some of the covers were newly designed pieces for the music and others used reproductions of classic artwork.

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Alex Steinweiss was hired by Columbia Records as an art director. He is credited with coming up with the idea of album covers and cover art. After his work at Columbia Records had been seen, other record companies Started to do this also.

(He made over 2500 album covers during his career.)

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Beginning in the 1920s, bound collections of empty sleeves with a plain or leather cover, similar to a photograph album, were sold as "Record Albums" that customers could use to store their records.

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by Tchaikovsky

German record company Odeon released Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky on four double-sided discs in a specially designed package. This was the first example of an art being used for a specific record.