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One genre at a time
Each of these has its own page: the full top 100, what that chart’s covers have in common, and what happens to them at 55 pixels.
Business
Business covers are mostly a host's face on a dark field, name set in caps.
True Crime
True Crime covers are dark, muted and photographic, which is why one white one wins.
News
News covers are a flat colour field with a network wordmark or a presenter's head.
Comedy
Comedy covers are saturated colour and a face caught mid-expression.
Society & Culture
Society & Culture covers lean on flat red and white fields with wordmark-only type.
Health & Fitness
Health & Fitness has the longest show names on Apple, and small type to match.
Technology
Technology covers are near-black with a wordmark, and almost never a face.
Education
Education covers are a face beside a promise, in the second-longest names on Apple.
Arts
Arts is the most visually varied chart: illustration, hand-lettering and texture.
Sports
Sports covers run on team colour, cut-out heads and a badge in the corner.
Science
Science covers are usually one bright flat colour and a single drawn object.
Music
Music covers borrow album logic: a portrait, a mood, and the title set small.
TV & Film
TV & Film covers are pastel or lime flat fields with the title set very large.
Kids & Family
Kids & Family is illustrated, primary-coloured, and carries the longest names.
Religion & Spirituality
Religion covers are either a preacher's portrait or a plain card of type.
Fiction
Fiction covers behave like film posters: dark, atmospheric, one image.
Leisure
Leisure covers show the hobby itself, or the logo of the game being discussed.
Government
Government covers are institutional: marble, navy, a gavel, a serif.
Ten stores, ten different charts
Apple keeps a separate chart per country. Start with Business in any of them.
What to do with it
- 1Look at the list, not the coverA cover you have stared at for a week always looks fine. The same cover between two charting shows at 55 pixels is a different picture, and it is the one your listener gets.
- 2Find the convention, then decideEvery genre here has a house style. Knowing what it is gives you two options rather than none: fit it and be legible, or break it deliberately and be the one that stands out.
- 3Then check the file itselfSize, format and weight are the easy half. The cover art checker runs them in your browser, next to the same list and wall you are looking at here.
Questions
Where do these covers come from?
Is my artwork uploaded when I compare it?
Why does the wall change some days and not others?
Why 55 pixels?
Should I copy what the top shows are doing?
Why ten countries
Apple keeps a separate chart per country, and they are less alike than people expect. Counted across all eighteen genres on 10 September, an average of 64 shows in each Canadian hundred were also charting in America. In Germany it was 12. If you publish outside the United States, the covers you are actually placed against are on your own country’s page, not on the American one.