Music poster studies.

 There aren't many album poster that relate to our genre of music but here are some of the ones I found.

Jay Z is a multi million artist, his poster colours are very common in the rap genre, the red and black, this connotes fire or danger, this could replicate in his lyrics or songs. 
the shot is a close up on this face, showing his fierce facial expressions 
His name and album name are big and bold to attract his audience, This is all in white this contrasts white the black in the background.
The image is seen like a drawing rather than a actual picture.
the title at the top shows that he has been in the game for a long time and his fans have been waiting for an album from him for a long time.

Katy perry is a very well known pop artist her image is very young and colourful as her target audience is young girl, she uses this is her posters. The bright colours attract straight away.
However her pose is very grown up and this attracts her older and male audiences, This is a long full body shot showing her posture and pose. 
The main focus is the image, rather then the text, however her name is repeated in her album, this also links back her her actual album.
The colour scheme within the text is very light, the pinks and yellows shows how dreamy and happy feel to the album, this poster is perfect for katy perry brand. 

Nelly's poster is also very black, white and cream, this is not common with rap posters.
the image is a close up of the face, this shows all his facial expressions, this is also like a pencil drawing kind of image, the ways its edited is very interesting, this is also attractive to the audience.