Digipaks from the genre...

Okay so really our genre is a kinda merge of indie, folk and pop... However analysing a pop album's cover isn't going to work for us as about 90% of them would be totally unsuitable!
So I found some artists who have a similar kind of style to ours...

Mika - The Boy Who Knew Too Much full album cover...

Although this picture is tiny, the use of bright colours, angled text and cartoons are all suitable and reflective of the artist, the album has two disks so the majority of the back is text, its good for me to note that the writing on the spine is reading downwards, as although to me that seemed most logically and visually appealing I wasn't entirely sure if there was a convention with CDs for this, at the bottom right hand side the bar codes placed and next to it is copyright and the website.

Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion.

This is Another of Mika's albums, the use of cartoon and photo together, and more muted shades of the bright colours (compared to 'The Boy Who Knew Too Much') are similar to what I intend to put in my digipak. However I think this is way too busy an ensemble for my actual digipak as it involves so much that I wouldn't be able to make look of a good quality so easily. 
Theres lots to learn from these examples including the use of few fonts, the same block 'MIKA' writing is present on both album covers, but then one other font is used, as I am only creating one album, and think matching the fonts for the title and album name is a MUST as ones I have been thinking of are quite chunky and bobbly, so although they would work smaller they'd be what I as a consumer would view as illegible.