AI Album Cover Prompts is a 16-page PDF pack of 20 copy-paste prompts for genre-perfect album art — hip-hop, rock, metal, lo-fi, EDM, jazz, country, pop and more — plus vinyl mockup shots that make any release look signed. This is a genre system, not a grab bag: lock your genre first, generate inside its visual language, judge at thumbnail size, and add your typography last.

It is made for independent artists, producers and designers releasing singles, EPs and albums who need cover art that reads like a record in three seconds at thumbnail size — without hiring an illustrator for every release. If your artwork looks like a random AI image instead of your genre, this pack is the fix.

WHAT'S INSIDE — PDF, 16 pages, 0.07 MB
• 20 complete prompt cards — the full copy-paste prompt text for every cover • Prompts 1–6 · Hip-hop, rock, metal, lo-fi, EDM & jazz
• Prompts 7–12 · Country, pop, R&B, K-pop, folk & reggae
• Prompts 13–18 · Classical, punk, blues, ambient, Latin & gospel • Prompts 19–20 · Afrobeat royal + vinyl mockup shots that work on any finished cover • On every card: tool settings, a negative prompt and a variation • Pro tips: the thumbnail test & genre uniforms — the two rules behind covers that sell the genre in 3 seconds • The 7-day release-art plan: from first generation to the cover-reveal post

HOW TO USE IT
Pick the prompt that matches your genre, keep the [ARTIST] description identical across your singles, EP and album so the era feels like one body of work, and generate 6–10 variants in Midjourney, DALL·E 3 or SDXL. Shrink every candidate to 55 pixels — if the mood and subject still read, it passes. Add the artist name and title afterwards in Canva or Photoshop (never baked into the AI image), then run prompt 20 for vinyl and product mockups.

LICENCE — COMMERCIAL USE INCLUDED
Everything you create with these prompts — album covers, single artwork, EP art, vinyl mockups and streaming thumbnails — is yours to use in personal and commercial projects, including client work you charge for. No attribution is required. The licence covers the artwork you create with the prompts; it does not allow reselling, sharing or redistributing the prompt pack (the PDF) itself.

WHAT THIS IS NOT
This is a prompt pack, not finished artwork and not a design course. No completed covers are included — you generate every cover yourself in your own AI image tool, which is exactly why each one can be re-rolled, varied and made unmistakably yours. The prompts generate original artwork guided by genre conventions; they do not copy real artists' covers, logos or trademarked characters.