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Album Sweet

A lost experience, rediscovered.

Savor
the album.

Album Sweet

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S o m e t h i n g 's m i s s i n gSomething's missing

In the streaming era, music became something
consumed one track at a time.
Playlists took center stage,
and the album as a "work of art" was pushed aside.

Album art shrank to tiny thumbnails,
liner notes vanished,
and the time spent wondering "Who's that drummer?"
while poring over the back cover was lost.

It got more convenient. But something's missing.

Pull an LP from the shelf,
flip it over,
read the credits.

Drop the needle while gazing at the cover.
When side A ends, flip it over.
In the meantime, read the credits.
"This guitarist played on that album too?"

Eyes, ears, and hands all moving at once — the richness of that moment.
An album has a "flow."
From the instant the first track begins
to the moment the last note fades —
it's a journey the artist designed.

Rows of vinyl record crates packed with LP jackets inside a record shop
Hands flipping through LP jackets in a record shop's bin

Solution

That experience,
reborn in the digital age.

Album Sweet reinvents the experience
of savoring an album as a work of art
with modern technology.

Full-screen album art.
Full-album playback.
Musician connections traced through credits.
And encounters with albums you never knew existed.

Album Sweet screen showing a full-screen album cover with the track list and Apple Music playback overlaid

Savor

Full-screen album art. Full-album playback. Read the credits and immerse yourself in the "work" as a whole.

The Beatles artist page with a network map visualizing musician connections

Explore

Trace musician connections through credits, follow the lineage of producers, and embark on a journey to the roots of music.

The "Discover" feature for randomly encountering albums from a shelf of spines

Dig

Impulse buys by the cover. Random encounters. The thrill of crate-digging at a record shop, now digital.

Features

Album Sweet screen showing a full-screen album cover with the track list and Apple Music playback overlaid

Listen while gazing
at the cover.

Full-screen album art.
Tap to flip to the back cover.
Full-album playback on Apple Music.
Tracklist, credits, session musicians —
everything about the album, right here.

The Beatles artist page with a network map visualizing musician connections

Beyond
the credits.

"That drummer played on that album too?"
Visualize musician collaborations
on an interactive map.
Filter by instrument, genre, or era
to trace the lineage of music.
From one musician, three degrees of connection.

The "Record Shelf" feature displaying album covers like a physical shelf, alongside the album search screen

Your record shelf,
right here.

You come home, open the door, and there it is — the shelf on the wall.
The LP covers lined up there
always welcomed you back.

Pick your 15 favorites and arrange them any way you like.
There are no rules.
What's there is your own story.

The "Drift" feature showing album covers floating in a dark space

Album covers adrift
on a sea of music.

LP covers drift slowly through a dark, warm space.
When a favorite appears, just start listening.
Simply watching the covers drift by,
you feel like you're traveling an ocean of music.

No login required. For anyone, anytime.

The "Discover" feature for randomly encountering albums from a shelf of spines

Encounters with
albums yet unknown.

Albums appear at random. Pick one by its cover, on instinct.
That feeling of digging through crates at a record shop —
undiscovered masterpieces are waiting for you here.

Data You Can Trust

Over 1 million albums.
7 artwork sources.
Over
1 million
albums.
7 artwork
sources.

1 M+

Albums

7

Artwork Sources

5

Languages

Built on MusicBrainz, the world's largest music database,
we collect artwork from 7 sources:
Cover Art Archive, Spotify, iTunes, Discogs,
Fanart.tv, and TheAudioDB.

THE ORIGIN

Why we built this.

There were days spent haunting used record shops.

Pulling LPs one by one from wooden crates, studying the covers.
Flipping them over, reading the credits.
"This guitarist played on that album too?"
The journey of discovery that began right there.

The LP covers lined up on the shelf
welcomed me home every time I walked through the door.
I want to savor that richness once more.

In the streaming era, I wanted to reclaim that experience — so I built Album Sweet.

— Namio Ikeda / TSUKURUN Corporation

Album Sweet

Start for free.
Make albums part of your everyday.
Start for free.
Make albums
part of your everyday.

Apple Music, or external links.
How you listen is up to you.

  • Apple Music
  • Amazon Music
  • Spotify
  • YouTube Music

One tap to your favorite service.

Getting Started

  1. 01

    Search screen for entering an album or artist name

    Search

    Search by artist or album name.
    Find your album from over 1 million titles.

  2. 02

    Playback screen for The Beatles' Abbey Road

    Savor

    Listen with full-screen cover art.
    Read the credits. Explore the musician map.

  3. 03

    Record shelf screen with selected albums arranged in order

    Shelve it

    Add favorites to your collection.
    Build your own record shelf.

Album Sweet

Why not build your record shelf right here?

Let's savor albums together.Let's savor
albums
together.

Album Sweet