Album artwork should be in the .jpg file format. The minimum size requirement for album art is 1000x1000 pixels. Ideally, album art should be perfectly square, and 3000x3000 pixels. If your artwork is smaller or rectangular, we'll automatically adjust it for you, but there's a risk that our fixed version won't look exactly as you intended.

Please also make sure your artwork is in the RGB color space. You typically don't have to think about this – every digital camera and photo retouching program (like Photoshop) defaults to RGB.

Things to Avoid Putting in Album Artwork

Streaming services will reject artwork that contains any of the following:

• A website address (URL)
• QR Codes
• Name of a page on the X platform
• Any image that's blurry, pixelated, rotated, or poor quality
• Unlicensed/stock photography
• Prices
• Streaming service logos (such as iTunes or Spotify)
• Social media logos (such as X, Instagram, TikTok)
• Nudity 
• Gross stuff
• References to physical media (example: "CD" or "Compact Disc")

Also, please do not use the same artwork for multiple releases. Duplicate album art may be rejected.

Updating the Color space to RGB

If you have saved your artwork in the CMYK or Grayscale color space and DistroKid gives you an error, you can re-save your artwork in RGB format and try again.

If you use Photoshop, click here to see how. If you don't have Photoshop, uploading and re-saving your file with the Pixlr editor will automatically convert it to RGB.