The ratings already being at a season time high

Every player starts out with a label -- 75 points goes along with it. Every artist you sign will cost 10 points; and the costs for releasing stuff is further down the page. With an artist you release singles, eventually albums and you promote and such. At the end of each week (Saturday) weekly charts will be released. There will be a 'Singles Chart' & 'Albums Chart' -- you earn hits, and plenty of points that way. I will be keeping track of points.

Promoting is what you do in the game 95% of the time. You write articles, the articles will be on your artist performing on televised stuff, controversies, announcing new things, etc, etc. The possibility is endless.

As someone who's played every season; I know most of the time you are just NOT here for having to do 902302 articles especially when you do so and still flop. The article limit this season is 30 articles. With minigames, touring (not included in article limit), etc in this season you have more time to focus on those. Promoting / Articles will count towards most of your promotion the week, so it's important to have these as your top priorty.




Albums & Other:
Albums -- 20 points: An album should best be released after 1 or 2 singles, to start off with stable sales. An album's performance will be measured on the Albums Chart, which depends on promotion and your current singles performance.

EPs -- 10 points: If you're not ready to start with an album, or like to do an EP right off the bat -- they are available for half the price. Ofcourse, sales won't be as big as an full-length LP but, it's still a source of cute income.

Re-releases -- 10 points: When you have an album and would like to add more tracks as a the era doesn't stop doing well, you can.

Singles & Other:
Singles -- 5 points: The simple thing everyone releases first, a single to get your artist started. Promotional singles, and such cost the same. A collaboration costs double.

Official Remix -- 5 points: If you release an official remix featuring another artist, it will cost 5 points for the release.

Remix EP's -- 10 points: Some people release remix EP's for extra points; these will be a hefty cost but also help a song.



Something new implemented this season; you WON'T want to miss out on when playing. Hyped Opportunities mainly go in place of what were paid promotional spots in previous seasons. Those were taken away in CAL5 due to them basically being given to the same people every week who came in the thread first. So in solution of somewhat bringing it back -- this will be completely fair.

2 "opportunities" (game or challenge) every week will be given. One will be for a special promotional gain that will help you greatly on the charts. It could be a radio deal, it could be a thread title, etc. Whatever the prize that week is will help you on the charts.

The 2nd opportunity will be for the Hyped Magazine which was in place last season. The winner will have their artist cover the magazine -- 2nd and 3rd place get an interview. This will also help you on the charts.

The opportunities will mostly be mini-games that determines winners, as done in CAL2 for extra points. Sometimes they might be challenges around ATRL, but I don't think those will happen. Participating in either is optional!

Touring plays a bigger role this season too! Artists will tour once they release material, which means you must release a new album before touring. Touring will help an artist sell a little extra copies of their album ; and is mainly album promotion. Although when needed to break tie-breakers -- it will be factored in.

Touring Rules / Guidelines:

-- You must tour atleast 10 dates.

Touring Venues:
2 points per date: Theaters, Small-sized performances.
3 points per date: Arenas, Medium-sized performances.
5 points per date: Stadiums, Huge-sized performances.

You can mix & match. 5 date maximum per week. The more dates you do weekly, with bigger sized performances will boost your album sales.

This season you earn back points from touring. Tours also do not count towards your article limit. The top tour weekly gets 1/2 their points back, the 2nd top tour weekly gets 1/3 their points back, and the rest get 1/4.



Special Events, something I've been urging be down more often in the past -- is in place this season too. Special Events include things such as Award Shows where you win Awards, and you perform. If we get far enough we'll do things such as Grammys, VMAs, etc in which labels nominate their artists and discographies for things such as "Best Pop Album", "Best Rap Artist", etc. Winning will result in single and album boosts like in real life for charts; along with the fact you get to brag. Performances will also happen during these, which also cause huge boosts for sales.

EARLY SIGN-UP / SIGNING LIST:

For those who will be playing CAL6 -- starting June 22nd write in a post your username, your label name, and what artists you had in CAL5 you will be resigning.

tigerlily 13 - Tigerlily Recordings - Eric Saade and Taylor Swift
Euphorae - Catalyst Fall Records - Christina Aguilera
Eglė - Republic Records - Lena
Disco_Blisters - Discophoric Records - Namie Amuro
Jax - Dreamcream Recordings - Azealia Banks
*Tim ~ Rave Records
YUNGKALIMXEL - Paradiso Recordings™ - Ariana Grande + Sky Ferreira
Hausofcarlos - Variety Records
Gasp - Toxic Records
Giselle - ??? Records - Selena Gomez

You can only re-sign artists you had last season to avoid fighting over them when the season official starts. You can't sign new artists because it'd be unfair to let y'all start 3 weeks before everyone else.

I will edit the sign-ups in this post.

tigerlily 13 - Tigerlily Recordings - Eric Saade and Taylor Swift

Also we need a Grammy's this season, Eric.

Originally posted by tigerlily13 Also we need a Grammy's this season, Eric.

Euphorae - Catalyst Fall Records - Christina Aguilera (re-sign)


Btw will our points from CAL5 carry over onto CAL6??

Originally posted by iHypeMusic Ugh, I messed up -- it starts June 22nd. I was looking at May on the Calendar. Y'all start over with 75 points btw.

Originally posted by genetic fail Shouldn't there be a new thread?

Originally posted by iHypeMusic Why post a new thread if we're not playing for another 3 weeks? I just wanted to give you guys a preview instead of making y'all wait for 2 months with no updates.

Originally posted by Tymps. so excited 4 this tea!!! mayb ill play this time. ill sign some1 really cool #fun #intresting #blackoutera

SLÉ Eric! This era is giving me pre ARTPOP hype, hopefully it won't be met with its end result
also YAS at promo being free again, my slayage knows no boundaries this time



Disco_Blisterss - Discophoric Records - Namie Amuro ( considering no one will claim my local fave )