1. An information processing apparatus for selecting images used in an album indicating a group of a plurality of images, the information processing apparatus comprising: a person setting unit configured to set a person appearing in an image included in the album; an image evaluation unit configured to evaluate each group of images used for generating the album based on a position of the person set by the person setting unit in the image; a count unit configured to count a number of times in which the person set by the person setting unit appears in a plurality of images; and a selection unit configured to select images used in the album from the group of images based on evaluation made by the image evaluation unit and a count value obtained by the count unit.