History Main / SoundtrackCoverCharacterJam

* The cover for ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' the Album features Bluey sitting on the patio listening to an UsefulNotes/{{MP3}} player.

* The original soundtrack for ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters2002'' has [[https://ia601303.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-a8f6ffd5-d0c8-4d75-87e1-0393246dca92/mbid-a8f6ffd5-d0c8-4d75-87e1-0393246dca92-11040413140_thumb500.jpg Iori Yagami playing on the electric guitar]] (quite appropriate, since [[AllThereInTheManual Iori is mentioned to be a musician according to lore]]).

** The cover for ''Anime/Digimon Tamers: Uta to Ongaku Shuu Ver.1'' has Takato playing guitar, Jianliang on bass, Ruki on drums, Guilmon on tambourine, Culumon con cymbals, Terriermon blowing in a whistle and Renamon playing the fife. The ''Best Tamers Original Karaoke'' series also has once again the characters playing at karaoke, with different settings on each cover (the first disc has Takato and Juri at a Japanese fair, the second has Jianliang and his family in a karaoke place and the third as Ruki and Ryo at the former's house).

* The soundtrack for the [=PS3=] version of the first ''VideoGame/GalGun'' game has the four main female characters playing on different instruments. See [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61FOh9HbJKL._AC_.jpg here]].

* The vinyl release of ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'''s soundtrack by Fangamer has its [[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0014/1962/products/product_shantae_vinyl_red_front.png?v=1570149510 female cast performing in a band]]; Shantae is on the guitar, Risky Boots plays a skull-shaped bass, Rottytops plays on the keyboard and Skye is on the drums. In addition, the gatefold has [[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0014/1962/products/product_shantae_vinyl_gatefold_red.png?v=1570149510 Shantae listening to music on a Game Boy through her headphones]].

* ''Franchise/Digimon'' has dabbled with this a few times.

* The cover for ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' ''Song and Music Collection'' haves the chosen children performing on various instruments: Taichi on guitar, Yamato on his usual harmonica, Sora on keyboard, Koushiro on violin, Mimi on tambourine, Jou on drums and Takeru on triangle.

** The [[https://vgmdb.net/album/126347 proper soundtrack]] for the game has Peppino singing karaoke at an office party... and getting completely carried away in the process (complete with a NecktieHeadband), kicking Gustavo aside and having beaten up the Noise earlier, generally making a scene of himself.

* While the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/FightNRage'' doesn't quite count, as it merely depicts the playable characters in action-filled poses (seen [[https://gonzalovarelaaudio.bandcamp.com/album/fightn-rage-original-soundtrack here]]), the [[UpdatedRerelease Gold Edition]] does play it straight, depicting Gal[[note]]a gender-flipped {{Expy}} of [[VideoGame/FinalFight Guy]][[/note]] with headphones on her, as seen [[https://gonzalovarelaaudio.bandcamp.com/album/fightn-rage-original-soundtrack-gold-edition here]].

** The [[https://vgmdb.net/album/126347 proper soundtrack]] for the game has Peppino singing karaoke... and getting completely carried away in the process (complete with a NecktieHeadband), kicking Gustavo aside and having beaten up the Noise earlier, generally making a scene of himself.

* ''VideoGame/{{Unhack}}'''s [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/343720/Unhack__Original_Soundtrack/ soundtrack]] has A[[superscript:2]], Weedy, and Debug side by side. The first two are listening to music, or at least trying to. A[[superscript:2]] has a ConfusedQuestionMark and examining her headphones, so it seems they don't work, while Weedy's works, and Debug is sleeping on Weedy's shoulder.

* ''VideoGame/RetroCityRampage'''s soundtrack is an interesting example in that its characters aren't the ones doing the soundtrack jam; rather, they're in fact getting ''clobbered by the composers of said soundtrack''[[note]]specifically, [[Creator/JakeKaufman Jake "virt" Kaufman]], Matt "Norrin Radd" Creamer and Leonard "Freaky DNA" J. Paul[[/note]], with the latter actually doing the jam themselves, with a boombox, electric guitar and keytar respectively. See [[https://e.snmc.io/i/600/s/36cb45cb65866edb32dfe4e54701316c/4408634/various-artists-retro-city-rampage-soundtrack-Cover-Art.png here]].

** The [[https://vgmdb.net/album/126347 proper soundtrack]] for the game has Peppino singing karaoke... and getting himself completely carried away in the process (complete with a NecktieHeadband), kicking Gustavo aside and having beaten up the Noise earlier, generally making a scene of himself.

** The [[https://vgmdb.net/album/126347 proper soundtrack]] for the game has Peppino singing karaoke... and getting himself completely carried away (complete with a NecktieHeadband), kicking Gustavo aside in the process and having beaten up the Noise earlier, generally making a scene of himself.

!!Examples

* The ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series has a set of vocal albums that depict its characters singing various songs. The first volume has [[https://segaretro.org/images/b/b0/PuyoPuyoVocalTracks_CD_JP_front.jpg Arle, Amitie, Ringo, Sig, Witch and Rulue]], the second one shows [[https://segaretro.org/images/6/6e/PuyoPuyoVocalTracksVol2_CD_JP_Box_Front.jpg Schezo, Lemres, Dark Prince, Klug, Maguro and Yu & Rei]], while the third has [[https://segaretro.org/images/8/86/PuyoPuyoVocalTracksVol3_CD_JP_Box_Front.jpg Carbuncle, Suketoudara, Popoi, Donguri Gaeru, Onion Pixie and Ocean Prince]].