I think AVFTTOTP is easy enough to type out. Personally I'll just abbreviate "A View From the Top of the World" as such.
Ah yes, A View From The Top Of The Porld. Amazingly typed out abbreviation.
It annoys me all the weird ways people abbreviate Octavarium.
8M. 8VIUM. 8VARIUM
I have literally not once seen any of these before.
I go 8V.
Pretty much what Timmy said, tho I go lowercase v = 8v
Talking about abbreviations, I always hate that the self-titled album is always referred to as DT12 - IMO, it should be s/t, but personal opinions are like....
As for the new one, it's not that difficult to type. I'll go with AVFtTotW. It's 8 letters, the same as TOWHtStS, which I've never seen anyone complain about typing out.
I've never seen anyone mix uppercase and lowercase in abbreviations before. To me, abbreviations just look better when they're all caps, especially when they're abbreviating a title, which typically uses all caps for first letters of every word anyway, and making them all caps is just easier to type anyways, without having to switch back and forth.
If using the whole AVFTTOTW doesn't work out for most people, I think we could just condense it to AVFTT, of if you want to type stuff out, maybe just "A View..." as a written-out short-hand?
At least most of the band's other albums have largely agreed upon abbreviations for their album titles:
WDADU
IAW (although I've seen I&W, but considering the album title doesn't use the ampersand, but the word "and" instead, it would be wrong)
FII
SFAM (despite cutting out the full title of Metropolis Part 2, which would technically make it MP2SFAM)
SDOIT (though I've seen 6DOIT)
TOT
8VM (my personal favorite, though 8V works just as well)
SC
BC&SL (using the ampersand because the full title uses it and not the word "and", so BCASL would be wrong)
ADTOE
DT12 (it's pretty self-explanatory, though I could see why many would use ST or S/T, since that's usually the most accepted abbrevation for self-titled, but lots of bands whose self-titled isn't their debut usually give those albums nicknames - The Beatles' White Album, Genesis' Shapes)
TA
DOT (or D/T, or d/t as seen in the artwork)
I'm just thankful that most of the song title abbreviations on AVFTT aren't repeats of past song title abbreviations - IM, SG, TT, ATM - the only ones that might get confusing would be TA but I think most of us would be able to separate that from The Astonishing, or "The Answer" from that same album, given proper context, and the same goes for ATC ("Answering The Call" vs. "About To Crash" from SDOIT). I don't think the others share their abbreviations with other songs.
-Marc.