The countries the lists' artists come from most, each drawn as a band of its covers, one stripe in the colour of each, by hue. Every country has the same number of covers, so that they can be set side by side.
The countries
Each band has 50 covers, drawn from the country's covers by the same lot every time, in the order of the countries' names. Under each band, its colours by name.
Argentina
- orange 18%
- brown 16%
- yellow 14%
- blue 12%
- black 10%
- red 10%
- green 6%
- white 6%
- grey 4%
- pink 2%
- teal 2%
Australia
- brown 24%
- red 20%
- black 10%
- grey 10%
- orange 10%
- teal 8%
- yellow 6%
- green 4%
- blue 2%
- pink 2%
- purple 2%
- white 2%
Austria
- yellow 18%
- black 16%
- brown 14%
- orange 14%
- blue 10%
- red 8%
- white 8%
- green 6%
- pink 4%
- teal 2%
Belgium
- brown 20%
- black 14%
- grey 14%
- red 12%
- orange 10%
- blue 8%
- white 8%
- yellow 6%
- pink 4%
- green 2%
- teal 2%
Brazil
- orange 26%
- brown 22%
- yellow 16%
- red 12%
- teal 10%
- black 4%
- blue 4%
- green 2%
- grey 2%
- purple 2%
Canada
- brown 24%
- orange 18%
- blue 12%
- teal 10%
- black 8%
- red 8%
- green 6%
- yellow 6%
- grey 4%
- white 4%
Colombia
- orange 22%
- brown 20%
- red 16%
- black 8%
- grey 8%
- teal 8%
- blue 6%
- pink 6%
- green 4%
- yellow 2%
Finland
- brown 30%
- red 16%
- grey 14%
- blue 10%
- black 6%
- green 6%
- orange 6%
- teal 4%
- yellow 4%
- pink 2%
- purple 2%
France
- brown 24%
- blue 18%
- orange 10%
- black 8%
- red 8%
- white 8%
- teal 6%
- yellow 6%
- grey 4%
- purple 4%
- green 2%
- pink 2%
Germany
- orange 18%
- blue 14%
- black 12%
- grey 12%
- yellow 12%
- brown 10%
- red 8%
- white 6%
- green 4%
- pink 2%
- teal 2%
Greece
- orange 22%
- blue 12%
- brown 12%
- red 12%
- black 10%
- green 10%
- pink 8%
- yellow 6%
- grey 4%
- teal 2%
- white 2%
India
- brown 24%
- orange 16%
- red 14%
- black 10%
- teal 8%
- white 8%
- blue 6%
- yellow 6%
- grey 4%
- green 2%
- purple 2%
Ireland
- red 18%
- grey 14%
- orange 14%
- black 12%
- blue 12%
- brown 12%
- white 6%
- yellow 6%
- green 2%
- pink 2%
- teal 2%
Israel
- orange 30%
- brown 14%
- black 12%
- blue 12%
- white 10%
- yellow 10%
- red 8%
- green 2%
- teal 2%
Italy
- brown 20%
- red 18%
- orange 16%
- black 14%
- green 8%
- teal 8%
- blue 6%
- grey 6%
- white 2%
- yellow 2%
Jamaica
- brown 26%
- orange 16%
- red 14%
- blue 8%
- grey 8%
- teal 8%
- yellow 8%
- black 4%
- green 4%
- white 4%
Mali
- brown 42%
- orange 16%
- red 14%
- blue 10%
- grey 6%
- black 4%
- green 4%
- yellow 4%
Mexico
- red 34%
- orange 20%
- blue 10%
- brown 10%
- black 6%
- grey 6%
- green 4%
- pink 4%
- white 4%
- yellow 2%
Morocco
- brown 22%
- red 20%
- orange 16%
- blue 14%
- black 6%
- purple 4%
- teal 4%
- white 4%
- yellow 4%
- green 2%
- grey 2%
- pink 2%
Netherlands
- brown 22%
- orange 14%
- red 14%
- yellow 14%
- black 8%
- blue 8%
- grey 6%
- teal 6%
- green 2%
- pink 2%
- purple 2%
- white 2%
Norway
- brown 20%
- grey 14%
- orange 14%
- black 12%
- red 12%
- blue 8%
- pink 6%
- teal 6%
- white 6%
- yellow 2%
Poland
- brown 32%
- red 14%
- orange 10%
- black 8%
- white 8%
- grey 6%
- teal 6%
- yellow 6%
- blue 4%
- green 4%
- pink 2%
Portugal
- brown 24%
- black 18%
- grey 14%
- orange 10%
- red 10%
- blue 8%
- yellow 8%
- green 2%
- pink 2%
- teal 2%
- white 2%
Russia
- orange 18%
- black 14%
- brown 12%
- red 12%
- blue 10%
- yellow 10%
- green 6%
- grey 6%
- white 6%
- teal 4%
- pink 2%
Spain
- orange 22%
- brown 16%
- white 14%
- black 12%
- red 10%
- yellow 10%
- blue 4%
- green 4%
- grey 4%
- pink 2%
- teal 2%
Sweden
- brown 22%
- orange 16%
- black 14%
- blue 12%
- red 12%
- yellow 12%
- grey 6%
- pink 4%
- teal 2%
Switzerland
- brown 20%
- blue 14%
- yellow 12%
- black 10%
- red 10%
- teal 8%
- green 6%
- grey 6%
- orange 6%
- white 6%
- pink 2%
Turkey
- brown 22%
- black 14%
- orange 12%
- red 10%
- white 10%
- blue 8%
- green 8%
- yellow 8%
- teal 6%
- purple 2%
United Kingdom
- brown 20%
- orange 18%
- red 18%
- black 10%
- teal 10%
- blue 6%
- grey 6%
- pink 6%
- yellow 4%
- green 2%
United States
- orange 18%
- red 18%
- black 16%
- brown 14%
- blue 10%
- green 6%
- yellow 6%
- grey 4%
- teal 4%
- purple 2%
- white 2%
How the colours are found
Each stripe is one colour of a cover, not the average of it: the average of most covers is a brown. Tidal gives every cover a colour, one of the cover's own colours made dark so that white letters can stand on it. The page looks on the cover for the colour of that hue and takes it as light as it is on the cover. Where the cover has nothing of that hue, or Tidal gives no colour, it takes the cover's largest strong colour, and on a cover without one its largest colour, often a black, a grey or a white.
A record counts for the country its artist is from, as MusicBrainz has it, not the country it came out in. A country with fewer than 50 covers has no band, and only albums whose cover the site has and looked at are on the page.