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There are some venues like the Estádio do Dragão or the Estádio da Luz in Portugal or the Ernst-Happel Stadion in Austria where artists usually have 50,000-60,000 people attending, so they're not really places to avoid in real life.

Apparently the Republic of Ireland is bugged as a country for artists in the editor. When I choose it in the menu, the flag doesn't change and no cities appear in the list.

I don't think they should. From RIAA guidelines: "Certification count begins at the track’s release date", so before it's released as a single the streams shouldn't count except for the album units and the non-single track. After its release, every track or video stream of the single (including the album version) is merged into the single release so further streams from the album track count towards the single. What doesn't makes much sense is that releasing a track as a single makes it actually sell less units, promotion associated to the single release should make it sell quite a lot.

That is probably due to manufacturing time, have you tried changing the facilities to reduce the time?

I can lend a hand if you need it. By the way, just to give some more work, I have a few more artists that were more successful in Europe (especially in the UK) 😉 The Charlatans, Enigma, Mike Oldfield, Chris Rea, Wet Wet Wet, The Cure, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, The Orb, INXS, Morrissey, Simple Minds, Cliff Richard, Diana Ross, Tori Amos, Luther Vandross, Paul Weller, The Beautiful South, Tracy Chapman, Transvision Vamp, Jason Donovan, Deacon Blue, Chris de Burgh, T'Pau, Curiosity Killed the Cat, Kate Bush, Rednex, Yazz, Jimmy Somerville. For non-English singers, one can add: Selena, Luis Miguel, Rocío Dúrcal, Vicente Fernández, Nena, Tangerine Dream, Laura Pausini, Nek, Jovanotti, Gigi D'Agostino, Andrea Bocelli, Hélène Ségara, Lara Fabian, Johnny Hallyday, Lena Philipsson, Lepa Brena

Every time I tried it the band goes into a quite long hiatus to let its members go into solo projects. At the end of the hiatus they decide if they go back to the band, continue the hiatus or break the band.

That may be an issue with the manufacturing facilities, it has happened to me that the manufacturing time could be 30 or 40 weeks if certain facilities were chosen by the marketing team (it was fixed by simply changing any of them, though). What is the manufacturing time that appears when you choose the number of CDs?

The same happens for me, when I send a band to training they start a hiatus, but if I send a solo artist they can still work normally. About how realistic the hiatus is, maybe there could be some intermediate point. It may make sense that while they are attending a production course they can't do a worldwide tour or even produce an album, but it doesn't make much sense that they can't release a single that's already produced or attend a late night show (even more taking into account that they can do those things while touring or producing an album).

I think it is unrealistic how easy it is to mass-produce super-high quality songs in the game. No matter how good or bad the artist is, if you send them with half-decent songs (50+ rating) to the best studio available with the best producer available they will always come back with an album full of mega-hits. It probably needs to be a bit more statistically varied. There would be some songs that can actually become a classic and top the charts and some of them may not be bad songs but they don't have that little magic that makes them hits, even if recorded with the best possible producer and with the best possible conditions. That way a great artist with a great producer and a great studio may come back from the studio with 3-4 real bangers and a bunch of goods songs for "filler track" in the album, but not fit to release as a single and top the charts. The same way a mediocre artist working with a mediocre producer may hit the button every now and then and produce a banger; most of the songs will be mediocre and a handful of them can be really bad, but that way they may release a #1-contender single every 2-3 albums. I've had an artist have 8 singles from the same album in the top 10 at the same time, that is even beyond Beatles' level of success, and he wasn't even 100 rep.

When I select EDM in the menu it appears as EDM all the way through production and in the album tracklist once it is released, but if I go to the "Release Single" tab the genre appears as Dance.

Still for remixes they appear as EDM in the album tracklist, but when you release them as singles they become Dance again and don't appear in State of Dance.

It seems none of the nationality checks for awards are working right now, I've just had an artist win Latin Video, Asian Video and African Video even though he's American.

Well, now that I checked his last album McCartney III peaked at #2 just two months ago and his previous album Egypt Station peaked at #1 in 2018, so maybe more people than I thought listened to his new music. They peak in their first week and then quickly drop by +50 positions per week, though, so they don't actually sell a lot of copies (none of his last albums got any certification). His singles really don't chart well, I guess this kind of older artist has a very loyal fanbase who will buy every album the week it's released but otherwise their new music is not really successful.

#1 albums in 1987 and 1992 but their highest selling singles were in the late 80s, yes. I think the main point is that the game doesn't have anything to deal with an artist's career past their peak apart from a decrease in reputation (which is not very realistic). Everyone knows the Beatles, most people would surely recognise Paul McCartney, and he can most surely still sell out Wembley singing 'Let It Be' and 'Yesterday', but I'm pretty sure most people have never heard a single song he released in the last decade (and he released half a dozen albums).

Although I agree that would be great since not all the artist have the same appeal for concerts than for published material (especially as they grow older), I don't think it's realistic that they don't get in the top40 at their peak. For example Def Leppard (which you mentioned in another post) at their peak they had two #1 albums in a row in the US and most of Europe and a bunch of top5 singles (Love Bites #1, Pour Some Sugar On Me #2, Armageddon It #3). I think that is more of an issue of becoming outdated: their new music is not fresh enough to get massive success but their old music was successful enough to sell out concerts. I don't think a tour where they only play their new material would be that successful though, I'd be disappointed if I went to their concert and they didn't play 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' but new music that I haven't heard before, to be honest.

Also I can see Enrique Iglesias won the British Male Solo Artist, which must be some bug too (he's not British)

Mark already said that saved games from 1.2 are not compatible with 1.3 due to the database rework.

Not really a bug but a comment on the database: Juan Gabriel, who is in the default real-world database, passed away some years ago.

Did you release it as a single? If you do all the streams will go to the single instead of the album track.

A few more artists: Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Van Morrison, Glenn Medeiros, James Ingram, Londonbeat, The Notorious B.I.G., Destiny's Child, Poison, Bette Midler, Richard Marx, Bad English, Rick Astley, Billy Ocean, Cheap Trick, Steve Winwood, Bobby McFerrin, Huey Lewis and the News, Whitesnake, Jennifer Warnes, Belinda Carlisle, Robert Palmer, Patti LaBelle, Peter Cetera, Cyndi Lauper, The Human League, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Kenny Loggins, Hall & Oates, Ray Charles, Bob Geldof, La Toya Jackson, Jeffrey Osborne, Smokey Robinson, Yes, Boy George, Toto, Bonnie Tyler, Pantera, Korn, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Motley Crue, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Rammstein, Slayer, Black Sabbath, Leonard Cohen, June Carter Cash, The Flaming Lips, John Fogerty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Smash Mouth, Fugees, Sonic Youth, The Kinks, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Katrina and the Waves, Tony Hadley, Status Quo, Holly Johnson

It would be great to have some dynamics to deal with artist getting old, apart from just retiring. Maybe you could add some "outdated" or "decrepit" factor as musicians get old where they can keep a huge reputation and still sell out any venue (if they had enough reputation anyways) but their skills progressively decay and their new music has less and less commercial appeal (so they sell less copies). That could also be a criterion for retirement: if an old artist considers that their last few albums are not selling as much as they think they should they may choose to retire or simply release far fewer albums but stay available for concerts and collaborations (I'm thinking on examples like Lady Gaga feat. Tony Bennett or Gorillaz feat. Elton John).

You can add some older musicians who were still releasing some new material in the 90s like Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Jeff Lynne, Iggy Pop, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Erasure, Julio Iglesias, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant, AC/DC, Garth Brooks, U2, Barbra Streisand, Phil Collins, Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart, Bee Gees, Neil Diamond, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler, Stevie Wonder, James Taylor, Olivia Newton-John, Linda Ronstadt, Donna Summer, The Who, Barry White, Earth Wind & Fire, Johnny Cash, Foreigner, Journey/Steve Perry, Barry Manilow, Kiss, Aretha Franklin, Bob Seger, Joe Walsh, Don Henley, Kenny G, Jackson Browne. Also some bands from the era like the Black Eyed Peas or Enya.

When you make a remix of one of your songs the resulting genre is Dance (even though it has been changed to EDM everywhere else). Also in State of Dance, Dance singles appear, but not EDM, so it probably isn't changed there either.

At some point during the game the AI stopped the automatic production of videos and it hasn't restarted.

This seems to be solved with the new update, it has been working fine now.