Quality of the songs

[mcaso]

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.

[Jord]

The weird thing is that I sent Michael Jackson to the studio with 99 and 100 rated songs and I made himself a 100-100-100 producer and his record was hardly better than those of my other artists/bands. The lyrics of the songs actually deteriorated in production, which annoyed me. My other band went in with songs rated around 70 and a worse producer but their record was almost just as good.

[Mark]

I agree and ive made it harder I believe, let me know if you think its looking better.