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I would love to see the songwriting feature be expanded a little. I think one way to do this is letting us pitch songs to specific artists. For example, my artist tries to sell demos to Ariana Grande. But she rejects them because she says they’re not her style she wants to record. But then I pitch a song to Little Mix and they release it. And then other songs I pitched to Ariana, I can sell to a catalog (where just any artist can buy off off the “Buy Songs” tab, like the way it is now) I’ve also noticed that artists that buy my artist’s songs usually don’t release them at all? I would love to see a tab where you can see the stats of sold demos, along with seeing them in the artist’s singles / album tracks. Also, in the email that announces an artist buys a song I put up for sale, I would like to see which artist of mine had written the song to begin with. I can’t remember if I suggested this before, but I would love a “multi-select” tool for the song database. This way, I can select more than one song to sell at a time (and possibly pitch multiple songs to one artist, where they may buy some of the songs I pitch to them). Another feature I would like to see is leaked music. For example, if I have poor staff, my artists’ music may leak online before release. And I get an email with my staff letting me know about it. Even if I have a really good staff, I would still like to see, every now and then, a single or even an album that gets leaked before release. And possibly having some features to respond to the leak, such as canceling the release, pushing up the release, or trying to get the leaked music removed from the internet.

I'm switching computers and just wanted to double check on which files I should transfer to the new computer to have my saved games. Thanks!

This has happened to me too. No mods, using the real artists database. I think Mark said he had fixed it when someone originally reported it but it came back

I think adding in a sorta “trendy fad” would be cool in the game. Such as Britney Spears’ debut, which followed with a lot of other blonde pop artists trying to replicate her sound, in attempts to have the same success. Or, like how non-Latino features in Latin Pop tracks was treading after the success of Despacito with Justin Bieber. Imagine this: Your artist has a breakthrough pop album with Ryan Tedder at the pen and produced with Dr. Dre. It’s #1 for ten weeks and on the charts for thirty weeks. A month later, and there’s some smaller and big artists trying to replicate your success with pop tracks written by and produced by the same people. Something where certain producers, writers, or genres (and possibly sub genres if it becomes a feature) are trendy in the game would be so cool, with copycats trying to replicate others’ record breaking hits. Something besides the current “popular genres per country” feature we have.

Yes! We need more ways to promote. Also with the album covers, it might be cool to have a color wheel of some sort to just made the album cover a solid color or a gradient? So we don’t have to keep re-using the same preselected pictures, but rather have a color story for the album

The X Factor show is really cool feature but I think it needs to be revisited to make better. The first thing I’ve noticed is that X-Factor contestants have a lot of missing info if you sign them, such as ethnicity. I also think it would be cool to see them get signed. A lot of them, including winners, never do anything after their season. It could be interesting to see them get signed and do well after being on the show. It’s realistic that a majority of them don’t do much after X-Factor, but I think at least a couple would be successful after. Judges should also be on there longer than a season or two. Maybe add an audience popularity to judges, based on how well their contestants do on the show? This way, judges stay longer. I had an artist be a judge on the show. And someone that was on her team won all three seasons she was on the show. I think it would make sense that X-Factor would want to renew her contract for more seasons. I think it’d also be cool to add in Syco Records, which also signs a few past X-Factor contestants. Possibly adding past suggestions for unsigned artists to release music independently may also help with this. And maybe the finalists’ potential singles actually get released as singles. It would also be interesting if contestants had past music released before being on the show, possibly independently released music?

Perhaps different award shows could have different percentages? Billboard definitely should be mostly sales based. But a show like the Grammy’s should be more album / song quality based This way, not every award show has the same winners.

I think this has been mentioned before, but I really think unsigned artists should be able to release music independently. Maybe the AI could only use earnings, to invest in producing music? I think this would aid with half the database being unsigned, and all unsigned talent just sit there. I’ve dropped artists that I got bored with, and they never get resigned, despite being some of the best selling artists in the current game. It would also be interesting to watch an unknown, independent artist get on the charts on their own and maybe get signed.

I seriously need the full screen update 😭. My eyes get tired really quickly playing the game

Some artist suggestions! Most of them are USA, sorry! BANKS (USA, indie) Donna Missal (USA, indie) Ryn Weaver (USA, indie) Aaron Taos (USA, indie) UMI (USA, R&B) Sarah Cothran (USA, pop) Carlos Vara (USA, rock) Justine Skye (USA, R&B) Niia (USA, pop) JGrrey (UK, R&B) Yuna (Malaysia, R&B) SHAED (USA, pop) (band) PVRIS (USA, pop-rock) (band) Cassette Tapes (USA, indie) (band) Njomza (USA, R&B) ZZ Ward (USA, indie) Zella Day (USA, indie) Léon (UK, indie) Miesa (USA, R&B) Rayvon Owen (USA, pop) Caroline Vreeland (USA, indie) Michelle Branch (USA, pop-rock) Niykee Heaton (USA, R&B) Pia Toscano (USA, pop) Nina Nesbitt (Scotland, indie) Sarah Close (UK, indie) Chase Atlantic (Australian, indie) (band) Emeryld (USA, indie) Paula DeAnda (USA, R&B) Dia Frampton (USA, indie) Judith Hill (USA, soul) Elia Esparza (USA, pop) Pale Waves (UK, pop-rock) BROODS (New Zealand, indie) (band) Gabby Barrett (USA, country) Tami Chin (Jamaica, reggae) Sean Paul (Jamaica, pop)

The unproduced songs vanish? Or their released music?

This happened to me too. One of my artists suddenly went to zero Facebook followers. I just told myself that they deleted their Facebook accounts though 😂

I know Mark said he was working on revamping the award shows, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had this issue. Sometimes one of my artists release a record-breaking, super popular, 10 million+ copies sold type of single. And it may get nominated for award shows. But for some reason, another artist wins, who wasn’t even in the charts? Sounds like something that would happen at the Grammys, but EVERY award show has done this? And one of the awards shows has a Best Live Tour award. And a few times all the nominations have been my artists. But the announce winner space is blank, and the recap at the end of the show doesn’t even show Best Live Tour as a category that was on the show for that year.

I’ve had two games now freeze when it tries to auto save. Both have been played for a long time (in the 2030s). They both freeze at 3% on the auto save after trying to simulate a week. The first time it happened I never noticed any prior issues. However with this second game that’s stuck, I noticed in-week game simulations would take a little bit longer than usually and the load time when first booting the save would take longer than usual. I’m not sure what’s wrong.

Does anyone know the best ways to raise the label’s skills? Specifically judgment. I’ve been trying to sign pre-existing artists but they all say my judgment is too low