Best Album Cover

Introduced at the 2026 Grammys, the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover is an art director's award, recognizing excellence in cover art for albums of recordings in any genre. Eligible elements include creativity, design, illustration, photography, and graphic art of the album cover.

13th Annual Grammy Awards • 1971

Honoring recordings released between November 2, 1969 – October 15, 1970

B.B. King won the 1971 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover with "Indianola Mississippi Seeds"

Winners & Nominees 1971

Winner
Nominees

  • Indianola Mississippi Seeds

    Ivan Nagy

  • Chicago (Album)

    Chicago

  • Hand Made (Album)

    Ed Thrasher

  • Mason Proffit (Album)

    Peter Whorf, Christopher Whorf

  • Schubert: "Unfinished" Symphony - Beethoven: Fifth Symphony (Album)

    Fred Poore, Peter Whorf

  • The Naked Carmen (Album)

    Desmond Strobel

  • The World's Greatest Blues Singer (Album)

    John Berg

  • Uncle Charlie And His Dog Teddy (Album)

    William E. McEuen, Woody Woodward

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
2026 Tyler, The Creator CHROMAKOPIA All Nominees
1973 Acy R. Lehman The Siegel-Schwall Band All Nominees
1972 Gene Brownell, Dean O. Torrence Pollution All Nominees
1971 Ivan Nagy Indianola Mississippi Seeds All Nominees
1970 Gary McFarland America The Beautiful All Nominees
1969 Horn Grinner Studios, John Berg, Richard Mantel Underground All Nominees
1961 Marvin Schwartz Latin A La Lee All Nominees
1960 Robert M. Jones Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 All Nominees
1959 Frank Sinatra Only The Lonely All Nominees