Cover art requirements for Spotify and Apple Music
Square, 3000×3000 pixels, sharp, and free of URLs, social handles, and store logos. Get those four things right and your art clears every store's review.
- Cover art must be square. 3000×3000 pixels satisfies every major store.
- Blurry, pixelated, or obviously upscaled art is a common rejection reason.
- No URLs, social media handles, prices, or store logos anywhere on the art.
- Any text on the art should match the release metadata — a different title on the art than in the store listing triggers review.
- The AIMD extension imports your existing Suno artwork automatically, and you can replace it before submitting.
Cover art is the most common place a first release gets snagged in review — not because the rules are hard, but because nobody reads them until a store bounces the submission. Here is the short version that keeps your release moving.
What are the technical requirements?
Square aspect ratio, high resolution. 3000×3000 pixels is the safe universal spec — it meets Apple Music's requirement and exceeds Spotify's minimum, so one file works everywhere. JPG or PNG both work; keep it RGB.
Quality matters as much as dimensions. Stores reject art that is blurry, pixelated, or visibly upscaled from a small image. If you are enlarging a generated thumbnail, use a proper upscaler and check the result at full size.
What content gets art rejected?
The consistent rules across stores: no website URLs, no social media handles, no email addresses, no pricing or promotional text ("out now", "exclusive"), and no store logos or brand marks — you cannot put a Spotify logo on your Spotify cover.
If the art carries text, it should agree with your metadata. An artist name or title on the artwork that differs from the release listing reads as a mismatched or misattributed release and invites manual review. Explicit imagery needs the explicit flag set; art that would fail the store's content policies fails regardless of flags.
Can you use your Suno-generated artwork?
Yes. Suno generates cover images with each song, and the AIMD browser extension imports that artwork automatically along with the audio, title, and lyrics. If the generated art is low-resolution or carries text you don't want, swap in your own image in the release workspace before you pay — AIMD validates dimensions before submission either way.
Art is one of five things AIMD checks before you pay — the full pre-flight list is in how to distribute Suno music, and the Spotify-specific walkthrough is at Suno to Spotify.
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