For the stores to accept your artwork it must be:

A JPG/JPEG/PNG file

A perfect square, ratio 1:1

A minimum of 3000 x 3000 pixels, the maximum you can have is 6000 x 6000 pixels

A large, high quality image  

Your cover art cannot be:

Blurry

Pixelated

Misaligned

Oddly rotated

The image can’t contain:

The name or logo of a retailer

Any registered trademarks

Copyrighted logo types

Content you don’t own the rights to

The word ‘exclusive’

Production credits

Any reference to physical packaging, or it being a digital product

No pricing

No pornographic images or links to pornographic websites

Any promotion for another product

Any misleading information (e.g. it can’t include another artist not featured in your music)

No reference to content that isn’t there

No websites or URLs

No offensive imagery or symbolism

If you display your artist name & release title

The text must be exactly the same as what you enter in the Release Information. Keep the text as minimal as possible

Do not abbreviate your artist name (unless that's how it's written in the Release Information)

Do not include any production credits