I have had a number of songs make it into the quarter, semi, or straight-up finals using nothing more than a picture of my album art; the text "zircon - Antigravity" with a green design, an upside-down iguana, and some bamboo. It's really not that amazing. sgx, the April grand prize winner, won with nothing more than a shot of his album art too, and while it's quite cool, it's not so amazing that it would have propelled him that far.

Having the album art shown is a great idea. It makes judging go a LOT faster, for one thing, because it's easier to see an image and associate it with a song than to actually read the smaller text underneath the image.

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