Q: Artist Photos Missing in iTunes 12.5.1

This is interesting and I'm glad it's mentioned. Most of mine however was promotional and non album related (I'm guessing 80%?).

Since I replied here two weeks ago, mine are gradually appearing. However, something I've noticed is some bands and artists are totally wrong. Example is Ed Sheeran, is appearing as a Black Singer. ???

It's kind of annoying because something else I've noticed is bands that aren't in iTunes Catalog will never have an icon.

Agree, the promotional shots are, most of the time, unrecognisable. For the bands, we can only see small silhouettes which looks all alike. And it's even worst since the image appears in a circle. I HATE this.

I find it interesting that we are now 2 weeks into this issue and there has been no Apple comment.  Is it a bug?  Is this the new 'look"?  Some acknowledgement of the issue would be good.  If it was intentional then the design team should all be fired.  Looks like a Jr. H.S. project. 

Agreed. Bump...?

Apple you have done it again by upsetting us users who have spent hours to organise our legitimate music!!! Remember Apple the upheaval you caused in a previous upgrade with books.

Shame... I am thinking of going back to Windows???

I think I have solved the problem.

Right cling on album, choose get info and artwork will re-appear. Of course this process has to be repeated individually for all albums.

Thanks Parry, this is a different issue - what this thread is about, in the main at least, is the disappearance of the Artist art that used to show in iTunes when using 'artist' view.  The 'art' has now been replaced (sporadically at least) with a pinkish microphone graphic.  Though some mention album art, it doesn't seem to be that most in this thread have experienced a problem with disappearing album art.  Thanks though for the tip for those who weren't aware

Exactly. This affects my iTunes library on Windows 10 64-bit (iTunes 12.1.5.21). It appears that the auto 'artist picture' integration that Apple is trying to force upon us does not work. It works a little better in the artist view in the iOS 10 Music app, but there are still a lot of holes. Would it be too much trouble to make this an option (Allow Artist Pictures) or something?

I hope everyone on this thread is sending in Feedback report to Apple.  The only way to get it fixed is to contact Apple repeatedly. 

Most of my music comes from the iTunes store and a very few artists are shown with a photo instead of this hideous microphone.

Previously, one of the album artwork was used to illustrate this artist view. It was far better!

And I didn't find a way to paste any picture (if you try to, the picture will replace the album artworks, instead of pasting it as the artist photo)

For those of us fed up with Apple's attitude to their customers - which is like it or lump it - and don't want to be told by some spotty geek in San Francisco how to organise their music collection, here are the alternatives:

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http://beebom.com/best-itunes-alternatives/

Also remember that Spotify, which is a much better service than Apple Music, can absorb your itunes library.

Free yourself.

I have a library of one thousand CDs in my closet ($12,000 spent) and I uploaded to my iTunes. So I understand that in order to see the covers of all the CDs in Artist view, I need to re - purchase them again? Very sad...

It's not even the solution... I have hundreds of titles bought from the iTunes Store without any artist picture , and I have a few artist which exhibit an artist picture even though they come from personal CDs I have digitalized.

The common problem is that the Artist pictures, not the album covers, have disappeared. You should not have a problem with your album covers.

There is a specific control for missing album covers that can be used to refresh missing ones:

Control-click (right-click) on the space where the album cover should be and choose Get Album Artwork. This should fix the problem. If it does not work (it should if you have previously had the artwork but may not for a new CD), check the exact title of the album in the iTunes Store. Select all the album's tracks, then choose Edit->Get Info and check the title there; if it doesn't exactly match the store then update it to do so and try again (you ca always change it back once you've got the artwork).