Artist Profile Preview
See how your profile picture and name come together — Apple Music doesn't use a header image, so this stays simple.
Artist Name
Apple Music skips a header-banner layout entirely for artist profiles, so a circular photo and your name are the entire visual. That makes an off-center crop or low-contrast photo far more noticeable here, since there's nothing else on the page to draw the eye elsewhere.
Since there's no banner image to establish a mood or genre, the profile picture alone is doing all of that visual work here — a plain portrait against a busy background tends to read more clearly at this small, circular size than a heavily stylized promotional photo does.
One photo, many crops — the same picture also gets cropped down for search results and related-artist rows elsewhere in the app, all smaller than this preview's card, so a photo that reads clearly here should hold up at those tighter sizes too.