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@MarkIs it possible for only one band member to leave a band and for you to still continue the band without them. For example: a member of little mix has now left the band but the band still remains making music. Is it possible to do this in game? Where we can keep the band and also have a new solo artist?

In the game editor. You go into country info and then it has options that you can change

Change what?

And for places like the UK, there isnt a Diamond Award anyway (there is in game but in real life there isnt such thing)

Yes, you would have to start a new game for the setting to take place. Ive found that songs in game never reach diamond anyway for countries like USA as they never get more than 10 mill sales in USA. Im sure they would still be albe to get the higher certifications in some smaller sale countries though 🙂

Hey Everyone 🙂 Ive been playing around with the number of streams to sales ratio to try and get the right balance of sales. I wanted to post here to let @Mark know and also get opinions from other people on the forum. I wanted to try and make the sales figures more realistic (as currently they are still quite high with streams). Ive found that adjusting the ratio of streams to sales by 150% gives a much better sales result that is more realistic (in my opinion). So for example: if a country has 150 streams to 1 sale (for singles). Ive times 150 by 150% to get a new streaming calculation of: 225 streams to 1 sale. If a country has 1500 stream to 1 sale (for albums). Ive times 1500 by 150% to get a new streaming calculation of: 2250 streams to 1 sale. I have only done this for Europe at the moment whilst I am testing it so it doesnt currently affect sales in other continents (but if other people agree that the new sales are good, I will change it for all other countries as well). I found that this change makes the sales more realistic. For example, previous number 1 song sales in UK was between 120k and 180k. Now the sales are between 80k and 120k, with a majority being above 90k. This is a lot more realistic (please see picture 1 attached below for refrence to these #1 singles sales). The Official UK Charts data states that the average number 1 song in the UK in recent years has sold around 100k - 110k in a week, my new sales figures of 80-120k is very realistic. For albums, The Official UK Charts data states you need around 60k sales to get a number 1 album on the UK charts (on average). Before I made changes, albums were selling over 100k often. With my new changes number 1 albums in game sell around 45k-70k in a week (see picture 2 attatched below for more info on the #1 album sales). Again, this is alot more realistic. Therefore, I think this change works well and makes the sales in game more reflective of real life. The 3rd picture refrences the UK Official Charts website where I got official/real infomation from. As this new change seemed to make UK charts more realistic, Ive changed every country in Europe by the same percentage (to keep the uniformity between all of them) and it seems to improve all of the other European countries as well. Ive attached the new database for anyone to try out and would love some people to give some feedback on if they also think it is accurate and realistic. If people think the new ratio works, ill change all worldwide countries and post the new database. Ive attached it as a normal file and as a compressed zipped file, both files are the same, I just didnt know what would be the best way to upload it, so I uploaded it twice 😂 (This new database also have the Brit Awards added to the game as well just as something a little extra 🙂) Thanks Everyone 🙂 RealArtists.db RealArtists.zip

Currently, if we want to re release an album we have to wait for the original album to end its sales (which is over 1.5 years). Deluxe albums are often released in the same year. So thats one reason for deluxe albums (to release them at the same time as the current album). Also, in reality, deluxe album sales count toward the origional album sales. So in game it would we super cool if releasing a deluxe album would link up with the origiona album and the sales and chart performance would be combined.

Ive had a look at some spotify statistics and it seemss that the best commercial singles that have been huge hits worldwide(e.g despacito (which was huge worldwide), Dance monkey, circles etc.) only get 50 million streams in a week maximum. I see that in game, album songs are getting around 40 - 50 million streams on spotify. So something is not right here. I think album streams need dramatically decreasing. Maybe only allowing the top 3 best songs on the album (rated by commercial rating) can only get high album streams and chart on the singles charts.

One of the songs has 40 milllion streams, which would mean (if divided by 150) it has 280,000 sales, yet it isnt on the charts?

And despite it being number 1 in USA with over 250 million streams, there doesnt seem to be and of the album songs in the singles charts?

I signed Meghan Trainor to my label (who was rep lower than 20 everywhere) and released a single with quite high promo (costing around $700,000 total). It got to number 29 in USA, 28 in Uk and similar numbers around the world (which is expected). I then released an album by her. I did absolutely no promotion at all. It only cost $20,000 to release the album (as seen below). yet she in number 1 in america and in the top 5 around the world. So it seems that albums just sell well and doesnt really mattter what the reputation of the artist is. The commercial quality of the single and album were both over 90. So i think that the problem is albums just sell well no matter the artist or rep

Yeah, same problem here. Majority of songs in charts are from albums

If i save/update the award show and then reopen it again, it does let me choose a country and city, but it doesnt let me do it be default when creating it

@Mark Now there is no countries or cities showed at all?

Ok cool 🙂

Please read the first copied text

Ok thanks, ill give that a go. Still needs fixing though 😆

@Mark I also noticed there are some award pictures available for awards that arent in the game (e.g american Music Awards). Are these awards supposed to be in game or are the pictures there by mistake?

When making an award show and selecting the continent and country. It allows you to change the continent but then the list of countries to choose from stays as African countries (even if you choose europe for example).

Can you attach a save with this error?

And then if you decide to release the album song as a single, will i remain on the charts as a "non single song" until it becomes a single. For example, I have a song at number 6 on the charts but its not an single. Ive releassed it as a single in two weeks time. During those two weeks, it goes off the charts (as its now classed as a single and isnt released yet) and another song takes its place. With the bug fixed, does the non single song remain a "non single" right up until the release date as a single (so the two weeks it normally drops off the charts, will it reamain on the charts).

Great, does this mean that more than 1 album song will chart now, or still only 1?

He's the link for the save. You'll see a song called Who we are on the charts an non single song. If yoy then release that song as a single the next song from the bottom of the album will take its place

http://www.theroad2success.co.uk/Forum/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=916

@Mark please let me know if you need me to upload the save again (if you cant find it on the other thread) That save should already be at the point of an album release so if you just release the non album song, you will encounter this error 🙂