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. . .
Actually, title case (according to the major style guides), capitalizes first letters, except minor words such as articles or short prepositions, etc. unless they are the first or last word of the title. The forthcoming album should be "A View from the Top of the World" according to title case conventions.
That may be the
proper to do it, if you're writing a college paper, but most bands and companies/labels/promoters will capitalize every word in an album title. I went back and looked at most of the posts on the DT FB page, and even some on Inside Out, and I think the majority of them had typed it out as "A View From The Top Of The World" rather than "A View from the Top of the World", which I think I maybe saw once among a couple dozen different posts. Then again, a few of them typed it out in ALL caps as "A VIEW FROM THE TOP OF THE WORLD" but I think that was just to be eye-catching and noticed.
But going back to abbreviations, we could just abbreviate all the words that aren't articles and prepositions and go with VTW, or if you want to throw in the A, make it AVTW. I'm fine with VTW, it's easy to type on a keyboard with all three keys being under the left hand. Maybe I should start a poll here...
-Marc.