2. 3 of the 5 album cover do not depict the band members on them and this shows that they can be categorised as bands that do not need the appearance of an artist to sell their product whereas the other two albums the show the band members can be categorised as bands that may need to show the artist to get sales but that does not mean that they put the image of the band on the cover in this case as the band may have been put on as an identifiable image for fans to easily recognise or they may simply have just preferred to put the band on anyway.

3. The purposes of these album covers are mainly for sales. Other functions can be to promote the band and act as a primary image for fans/consumers to recognise,