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2020 One Show - Social Media

Behind the Record

Agency TBWA\Chiat\Day / Los Angeles

Client The Recording Academy
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About the Work

The shift to digital streaming hasn’t been great for everyone. As physical albums disappeared, so did liner notes, meaning all the people who work “behind the record” no longer get credit. Behind the Record brought credits to the streaming age. But it wasn’t your average user-generated campaign because in this case, all the users were musician/celebrities. Credit Covers are templatized album covers that replace any digital album cover in the world with the names and titles of everyone who worked on that album. The Credit Covers were created with an algorithm that harnessed data from Jaxsta, a music industry database, to merge song credit and official album art data. An easy-to-use website gave artists themselves the power to create and share their own cover on social, amplifying the campaign’s reach and creating a snowball effect. Over 2,500 artists participated, including Billie Eilish, Alicia Keys, Jonas Brothers, and Taylor Swift.