230807 Billboard: The 100 Best Album Covers of All Time (Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey and Indigo at #51 and #86)

> **Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey**

> Unlike the ‘7’ heavy cover art for Map of the Soul, 7, the artwork for Map of the Soul: 7 ~ The Journey is a stark illustration done in primary colors. Various flowers unfurl behind two opaque white panes, which pop against a black background. In a cute, cartoonish touch, two of the flowers have a set of eyeballs peeping out from the center, tipping to the band’s sense of humor.

> **Indigo**

> The cover art for RM’s debut studio album certainly lives up to its title. A painting of vertical blue lines from late Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun hangs on a yellowish wall in a mostly empty room. The BTS member, clad all in denim, sits on the floor, leaning against the wall and contemplatively gazing in a direction opposite a stool stacked high with his old jeans, which is bathed in a sunbeam that just misses him. Enigmatic and elegiac, it’s a fitting visual to accompany an album about saying goodbye to a period in one’s life.

I love this for Joon!

The Japanese version of Map of the soul is my first BTS album. Not gonna lie, the cover is what partly drew me in.