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This is a list of record-breaking historical expensive album covers or CD packaging. Elvis Presley (1956) – reportedly was the most expensive album cover ever up to that point. [75] Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) – the cover, costing £25,000, was reportedly the most expensive cover design up to this time.
The album's creation was expensive and laborious, featuring the work of ten record producers and over 100 musicians. Jackson started the multi-genre production in 1997 and did not finish until eight weeks before the album's release. It was reported that it cost $30 million to record; as of July 2024, it remains the most expensive album ever made.
The Beatles – The Beatles (the "White Album") (Parlophone UK album, 1968) – Ringo Starr's personal copy (No. 0000001) was sold for $790,000 in December 2015, according to Rolling Stone. This is the highest price ever paid for an album that has been commercially released.
Invincible reportedly cost $30 million to record, which means it’s probably the most expensive album ever made. A team of super producers led by Rodney Jerkins struggled mightily with Jackson ...
Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of its release. [2] Named after the Marx Brothers' film of the same name, A Night at the Opera was recorded at various studios across a four-month period in 1975. Due to management issues, Queen had received almost none of the money they ...
The Miracle boasts one of the all-time most hideous album covers ever released by a major artist, and its accompanying music is better than that, but not by a huge margin.
The production costs were initially estimated to be about $1 million but many years later were revealed to be about $1.4 million (equivalent to $5.88 million in 2023), making it the most expensive rock album recorded to that date. [8] [9] The band embarked on a nine-month tour to promote Tusk. They travelled extensively across the world ...
The album ends with his longest studio track ever, “Murder Most Foul,” a staggeringly ambitious, but also funny and tangential, 17-minute survey of American history since the JFK assassination ...