Tue May 06 2025
Hey Music Managers! This update brings several quality-of-life improvements:
• The starting artists now have the potential to be rated even higher
• Gain experience faster as you level up skills and manage new artists
• You can now prompt artists to write songs if they haven’t started one yet
• Songwriting speed has increased by 30% - songs are now completed much faster, even at lower levels
• Releasing singles no longer costs energy
• Creating your own artist now requires 50 experience (down from 75) and/or is unlocked with permanent energy
• Groups can now be formed more easily, with lower chemistry requirements (note: lower chemistry may impact popularity)
• Making offers to artists now costs less energy
• Job contracts can now last much longer
• Issue with artist names fixed and create artist crashes
• Bug fix: Certifications caused crashes
• Bug fix: At 100, you can now manage 8 artists
Hi!, first off I love this game and all the games this company has released and will continue playing their current and future games for the foreseeable future.🩵 But!, as I have advanced so much in this game, it seems that I might have reached the end because I’m unable to continue playing the game as I tried to progress to the next week, the game will just close out and the new updates doesn’t fix this issue. I’ve been unable to continue playing and have been left at ‘Week 37, 2061’ and as I said before, every-time I tap ‘end week’ for ‘Week 37, 2061’, the game closes out. I hope you see my review and can hopefully address this issue. Thank You🩵
I am also an avid fan of the creators of this game and play everything they put out! This game has serious potential, but I want to echo what a lot of others have said. The game takes too long to get going and is not nearly as “realistic” in comparison to other games. For example my manager is completely maxed out experience wise and attributes, in addition I’ve created all of my artists and they are all 90+ and they still get maybe $1k streams. Now I’m not saying that those should be automatic stream boosts, but on the feature list they are all considered 99s in terms of vitality. In the “Music Star” game when you’ve gotten to that point your songs are automatic hits and streaming well. In addition I have featured several established artists like “lizzuo” (I always love the clever names) and the song is barely streaming. I really feel like this has been an ongoing gripe with people and would be great to see some update addressing this.
This is a genuine question for any of the developers who worked on the game, are you supposed to make any money? Seriously it’s is ridiculous. I think you have a legitimate better chance at being successful at being a manager in real life, then you do in this game, I’ve played all the way through the year 2052 and the most money I ever had was $21,000. And it’s not me, I know that because there is legitimately nothing that I can do to make more money! It doesn’t matter how viral or talented the artist you sign is, you will never be successful. But the biggest problem to me is that this isn’t the only game you guys have made that has this problem. The production studio in the Actors life game is completely unplayable. No matter how good of a script you write, or how good of actors you hire, unless you have the billion dollars required to keep you energy above or at 100 so you can upgrade your directing abilities, you will never ever make a good or successful movie. It’s ridiculous, FIX YOUR GAMES!
I love this game and how there listening to the bugs players have but one thing I don’t like is when I make one of my artist take a 3 year or so long break to work on a album to gain 20 songs the game puts all the songs I’ve had siting there onto a random new album I didn’t make even tho I had a album I made and was getting ready to put all the songs into idk if this is a bug or if this what a artist does automatically but it’s a bit annoying. One more thing is that I can’t delete albums incase I don’t like the name or something which is also annoying other than those two problems the game is amazing and plays good just there other games
I will keep this short and sweet! I am enjoying the game so far, but I have one wish that I hope they add in the future, and that’s the ability to rename songs. When you are looking at the list of ghostwritten songs, it’s the same ones over and over. Sometimes the artists write songs with the same names of songs they already released. If I could at least rename them or if there was a remix option, it would make things more realistic. Other than that, I’m enjoying it! Adding meet-in-greets, listening parties and other things would be nice too. Just randomly thinking of things.
The revenue for streams and sales is so incomprehensibly low, and I’m basically funding these artists with 100k plus fans with my barista paychecks because they get exhausted from a tour of like 5 shows for about 3 years???? Lol. The game more or less tries to tell you to spend money to do remotely anything impactful but even then good luck actually climbing out of a couple grand because costs go up with your artists who randomly became viral from a decision you make or something making focusing on them virtually impossible because now they’re way out of your price range for tour costs amongst other things. I know it’s a stereotype that musicians are broke because of labels and whatnot but none of these people are signed and I’ve seen independent artists make way more money than the collective of 3 artists with hundreds of thousands of fans.
I got the game when it was relatively new, which means there were, and still are a few locked features. Having tours added to the game definitely improves it, but having that aspect from the start would have made the gameplay experience a lot more interesting. I also find it to be a bit difficult to get experience points. I have everything else maxed, but do not have my experience maxed, so getting quality artists is one in a million. I also wish there were more songs you could buy with different genres. I’m seeing the same 5-8 genres every time, yet there are so many others.
I probably spent $60 trying to max everything in the game, and it was impossible with my first character. I spent most of the money and not only did I lose everything due to a glitch in the game, but also more valuable artists appeared on your song. How can you spend 1 million on a feature and the song doesn’t even get 1,000 views, which is probably equal to around 25 cents 🤦🏻♂️ With my second character, I can’t progress in any way. How can I help my character if I have singers with 80k followers who don’t even get 1k views on a song🤷🏻♂️ On top of that, I lost so much money trying to tour my artist. In this game, it’s all a loss for the player. All your other games are excellent, but this one is a no-go.