Modern K-pop album packaging for STAYC's upcoming single album, [S]. I just bought this one recently!

• includes a full graphic with everything included to let fans know what to expect

• is more than just music: a strong focus on photos and typography

• collectibles so fans buy more versions (this is just one version of three)

This source will be helpful because it encompasses all of music's listenable history. I will need to know ever aspect of music reproduction if I want to study all of its packaging.

Sometimes Wikipedia has exactly what I need! This is a comprehensive list of every winner of Best Recording Package, which will give me insight into what is considered the best of the best from the Grammy (and Western) perspective.

This article is about the design and popularity behind the Charli XCX album, brat. This album is a perfect example of iconic packaging and a recognizable brand that permeated every corner of the internet and the real world.

This source specifically talks about design behind album covers for people looking to break into the Western market, which dominated in album sales.

This article will give me information about The Beatles' The While Album, which was one of their most influential albums. The Beatles were a global sensation, so it only makes sense that their album packaging would be a good reflection of the times.

"Oh!" was the first K-pop album to popularize the idea of photocards, which are a common collection item for K-pop fans everywhere. This video shows everything included in the album. This will be important for speaking about consumerism and collecting.

This article delves into the mind of a consumer specifically relating to vinyl sales. Vinyls have had a recent uptick in popularity and it is helpful to know why people want to collect them so bad.

This vinyl was the first to win a Grammy for album packaging, so I think it would be useful for me to know what it looked like.

This was the first K-pop album that did not include an actual CD and instead had a link to a digital streamer with higher quality sound than other streaming services. This was a big moment in K-pop packaging because even though you were ordering "music", you got nothing physically.

Olivia Rodrigo was a big hand in the resurgence of vinyls, especially with her album Sour. This shows how many variants there are of one album, all with the same tracks.

This video talks about the history of cassette tapes and how they work. They were a median between vinyls and CDs.

This article provides history about cassette tapes and how they became available and popular to the public.

This is a cassette release of Toto's album Toto IV. This website has multiple photos of the album's design.

This article is from the height of CDs in the 2000s. They are discussing the popularity of "deluxe" albums and how this will affect the future of music.

This is a CD release of Green Day's American Idiot, the band's most popular album and one of the most iconic and recognizable album designs of the 2000s.

This is one of the most unique package designs I've seen. NewJeans released an album that was in a functional purse that fans could bring around.

This is a K-pop album that was released in the form of a cake, since the album was called Birthday. Each version is based off of one of the five members for collection purposes.

This is a cassette release of the album H₂O. The album cover is iconic.

This is a K-pop album released in 1999, one of the first big groups to get popular. It is a CD release, but it also had a cassette release.