Changelog

What's new, what's fixed, and what's changed - most recent first.
Thursday 15 October 2026
Fix Fixed 'current best' on the manager dashboard. It now counts records your band is featured on, the same as your band's profile does. Thanks to the player who spotted it!
Friday 9 October 2026
New There are eight new achievements, for Top 10 records and certified records. Three are for getting five, ten and twenty different records into the world Top 10. The other five are for five and ten Gold records, five and ten Platinum records, and three Diamond records. A Platinum or Diamond record counts as a Gold record too, and a collab counts for both bands. Records that keep going past Platinum now say so on their badge as well, for example 2× or 3× Platinum once they reach twice or three times the Platinum amount. Diamond records count up the same way. If you've done any of these already, they're waiting for you on your achievements page. Thanks to the players who asked for these!
New You can now hold a new record back until its music video is ready. When you book a video for a single, EP or album that isn't out yet, tick the box to hold it. The record then waits until the shoot is finished and comes out on the same night as the video. It doesn't lose any of its selling nights by waiting, and anything else you book on it starts that night too. Thanks to the player who asked for this one!
Improved A market you buy now starts you at 5 popularity instead of 1. Singles only go out where your popularity is above 4, so until now a market you'd paid for couldn't take a single until you'd gigged or promoted there. A player pointed out that 1 was a disadvantage, and they were right. From now on a market you've just bought is ready for your next single straight away. Markets bought before today stay where they are.
Improved Both promotion pages now have a 'Select all' button above the list of markets, so you no longer have to tick them one at a time. Once they're all ticked it turns into 'Clear'. Thanks to the player who asked for this one!
New You can now rename a friend group. If you own one, change its name in Edit Group on the group's page. For 30 days afterwards the group shows its old name underneath, so your members know it's still the same group. Names still have to be unique, so if another group already has the one you want, you'll need to pick another.
Improved The 'come back' emails now stop after two. Lapsed players receive one after three days away and one after ten. The one after a month didn't seem to bring anyone back, so I've dropped it. That's one less email if you ever drift off for a while.
Thursday 8 October 2026
Fix Markets now only open when you buy them. A random event that gave you popularity everywhere, or an Advertising or Press campaign aimed at a market you'd never been to, was quietly opening that market for free. That was never meant to happen and it was my mistake. From now on, events and campaigns only work in the markets you're already in, and new markets come from Band Upgrades as they always should have. Nothing anyone already has is taken away. If a market opened for you that way, it stays open.
Tuesday 6 October 2026
Fix When you compared two bands for this season, Compare was still mostly using their all-time numbers. It now compares this season's ranking and score, and leaves out highest ranking and trophies, as those only mean something over a whole career. The rankings, tickets and best-seller lists also now say so when nobody is on them yet, instead of showing an empty table. That's how they will all look when the next season begins. If you're not on one of them, they now tell you how to get on it instead of putting you at the bottom.
Fix When you look at this season on the rankings, bands are now ranked on this season's sales, streams and tickets, and nothing else. Until now that view only changed the numbers in the columns and still put everyone in their all-time order. So a band that hadn't done a thing since the season started could sit above one that had been out selling and gigging all season, which was my fault. Friend groups now work the same way. Artist of the Year at the end of this season will go to the band at the top of this season's rankings.
Improved Every record page now tells you roughly how many nights it has left in the shops. The promote page also checks a campaign against that before you pay. If a campaign runs longer than the record sells, it tells you how many of its nights will only add to your popularity and notoriety. If a video would still be shooting when the record comes off sale, it warns you that the video would never run at all. Band pages were wrongly counting every record's nights on sale to 50, and they now use the same numbers. A player asked why their single had stopped selling while their campaigns kept going, and nothing in the game could have told them. That was my fault.
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Improved When a band changes its name now, its records keep the name they came out under. Singles, EPs and albums stay credited to the old name on the charts, the all-time lists and other bands' collabs. A small asterisk next to the old name takes you to the band's page, which now says what the band used to be called. Where I could work out what a band was called before, its older records have that name back. This was a player's suggestion and they were right. Until now a rename quietly rewrote a band's whole history, including the best sellers of all time, which was my fault.
Fix Pressing Cancel on Google's sign-in screen, or leaving it open too long, no longer drops you on an error page. You now land back on the login page with a line saying what happened, so you can try again or sign in with your username and password instead. Sorry if that ever caught you out!
Saturday 19 September 2026
Improved You can now change the name the game shows for you. It's at the top of your manager settings, and it's the same name you sign in with. A lot of you who signed up with Google or Facebook were stuck being g_ and a string of digits on your own band pages. That was my fault, as the game needed a name for your account and never asked you for one. Your private name and town stay private, as they always were, and the page now says so.
Fix Ending a band no longer stops a record you made with a band that is still going. Those records carry on selling and streaming, and the band that's left takes all of it. Also, records where every band has ended really do stop now. A lot of them were still sitting on the streaming chart with the previous night's numbers frozen under them, which isn't what the page promised. As always, nothing is deleted. Every chart position, certification and award stays exactly where it is. A player found both of these and they were right about both, so thank you!
Friday 18 September 2026
Improved Your banner shows properly on your band page again. It now fills the width of the page and sits in the middle, whatever shape you uploaded, instead of sitting small in the corner. Your records are split into Albums, EPs and Singles again instead of one long list, so people can actually see what you've made. The figures beside them now line up down the page too, instead of wandering about. The first two came from a player who wrote in about them, and they were right on both counts, so thank you!
Improved You can now pick which emails you get, instead of choosing between all of them or none of them. The choices are chart news when one of your records moves, a catch-up when you've been away, a nudge if you stop playing, and news from me. They're in your manager settings. The link at the bottom of any email I send now takes you straight there without logging in, with the one you clicked about already switched off.
Friday 11 September 2026
Improved I've rebuilt the manager and band pages. A manager's page now shows their bands, what those bands have sold and won, and how to reach them. A band's page now opens with your banner, your logo and your own words. Below that is where you stand tonight, then one list of every record you've put out. It also finally names your manager properly.
Improved The charts now go down to 100 instead of stopping at 40. The game has always ranked records that far down, which is why you'd sometimes see a chart number on an old single that wasn't on the list anywhere. It was only the page that stopped early.
Thursday 10 September 2026
New You can now filter the charts by genre, so you can see who's actually top in reggae, jazz or punk rather than just who's top overall. Every chart row now shows the band's genre too. A player asked for this and they were right. It should have been there years ago!
Improved The Manager Dashboard's list can now go in the order you want: the order you made your bands, or by name, rank or points. It remembers which one you picked. The call sheet still starts with whichever band needs you most tonight.
Improved I've made three changes a player asked for. Rest & Recover now starts at 4 points when you pick the spa or the health farm, instead of 1 point, which the spa and health farm were always going to refuse. The Rundown now tells you what you're clear to release tonight and how many nights the other cooldowns have left. The tour form now opens on your last tour's region, number of gigs and venue size, instead of the smallest room every time.
New Refer a friend is back. Send your link, and when your friend's band releases its first single you both get some points as thanks for promoting the game.
Improved The nightly rundown has moved out of your inbox and onto its own page, The Rundown, under Dashboard in the menu. It shows last night in full, plus the six nights before it. There's also a one-line summary of last night under your rank on the dashboard. The rundowns already in your inbox stay where they are.
Improved Tour reports no longer land in your inbox. Your last fifteen tours are listed on the Go on Tour page instead, including what each one did to the band. Messages now has Mark all read and Delete all read buttons. Messages the game sent you now clear out on their own after sixty days, but messages from other players are never touched.
Improved I've tidied up a new band's first hour. You no longer see '#0 / Highest #500,000' before your first rank, and the welcome message now has an actual plan in it. Practice now tells you when it has ticked off. The tour page is honest about popularity and predicts your crowd before you book. Rest, Promote and Band Upgrades now check what you can afford before you press the button. The rivalry pitch also said two rounds wins the week, which was wrong. It's whoever wins more.
Improved My Music is now two pages, Records and Songs, instead of seven. Every old link and bookmark still works. Songs opens on the songs that are still free to use, and each song now shows which records it ended up on.
Improved The Manager Dashboard now lists your bands in the order they need you tonight. It warns you in red when a band is sat on the 2,500 point cap, and you can switch band by clicking its name. There are two views, call sheet or list, and it remembers which one you picked. If you have more than eight bands, the call sheet shows the eight that need you most and the list shows them all. Both get a search box.
New You can now close your account, from the bottom of Manager Settings or a link in any email. Hope you don't though! :)
New You can now end a band, from the bottom of Band Settings. It stops selling, touring and earning and comes off the live boards, but nothing it achieved is deleted - every chart position, award and record stays, for good. If you change your mind, contact me.
Improved If you stop playing, the game will now email you what you've missed after three days, ten days and a month. That's three emails, and then it never sends another. Every one has a one-click unsubscribe.
Fix The game now works properly on a phone. The logged-out menu was sitting off the edge of the screen on 360px phones (sorry), band profiles scrolled sideways, and thirty-three tables hid their columns with no warning - all fixed, along with the other things I found while I was down there.
Improved The Weekly Rundown now goes to every active band every morning, not just the ones that sold something. New bands get a first-night message too, explaining what happens at half eleven. I've also fixed the 'while you were away' email, which was going to people who play every night.
Improved New bands now start with £5,000 and a bit of popularity at home, so you can release your first single on day one. A single with nowhere else to go now comes out in your home region, the way albums and EPs always have. If you've been stuck unable to release, you can release tonight.
Improved While the nightly update is running, a line now appears across the top of every page, so a half-built chart doesn't look like a bug. You can still browse during the update. Only the things you submit have to wait.
Improved The game looks different: the emoji are replaced by a new icon set (hover one on desktop to see what it means) and some styles have been tweaked. The status page has been reorganised so your own numbers are the first thing on it rather than the seventh. Don't like it? Got comments? FEEDBACK PLZ!
Tuesday 8 September 2026
New Things now happen to your band! Every few nights a card turns up on the status page and you pick what to do about it. For example, a brewery wants your name on a beer mat, the van has died on the hard shoulder, or a fan has had your logo tattooed on their arm. Every choice has a small but real effect, like a bit of money, a couple of nights of better ticket sales or a dent in morale. A few of them are a gamble, and there's always a way to walk away. Nobody gets more cards than anyone else, and none of them can make or break a season. There are over two hundred of them, so you shouldn't see the same one twice for a good while. If you leave a card for a week without choosing, it goes away on its own.
Fix Certifications haven't actually been awarded since the day they launched. The nightly update was meant to hand them out automatically, but it turns out I'd built the whole thing and then never plugged it in. So for two and a half weeks your records have been earning Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond and getting nothing for it, which was my fault. It's fixed now, and the backlog has been awarded in full. Nothing anyone earned in that time has been lost. Thanks to everyone who told me something was up!
Sunday 6 September 2026
Improved I've given the front page a proper going-over. It now shows the actual world Top 10 and a real rivalry result from last night. It turns out the 2001 homepage had a chart on it, and somewhere along the way I'd lost that. The season now explains itself before it starts counting down, and it counts the days you've got left rather than the ones that have gone. If you were signed out and clicked Charts, you used to land in a stripped-back version of the game with no way to sign up. That's fixed. Everything is a bit easier to read in both light and dark mode, and the whole site now works properly with a keyboard.
Fix Promo campaigns on a record now have diminishing returns. Until now there was nothing at all stopping you stacking them forever, which was never the intention. The first few are worth exactly what they always were. After that each one adds a little less, getting closer to five times the sales without ever going past it. The Promote page now shows what a market is already carrying before you spend, so you can tell when your money would do more somewhere else. Nothing has been taken away and nobody has been refunded or punished. Campaigns you've already booked keep running to the end.
Monday 31 August 2026
Fix Release ratings were coming out lower than your tracks deserved. An album full of 90s could rate in the low 80s, because of a scaling quirk left over from the 2001 code. Thanks to the manager who caught it! From now on an album rates at least the average of its 10 best tracks, and singles and EPs work the same way. Your producer and the points you spend can only add to that. Every existing release has been raised to the rating it should have had. Nothing was lowered, as I never take things back.
Thursday 27 August 2026
Fix The world stood still on Tuesday night when the nightly update crashed, so nothing sold and the charts froze. I blame YOU - so many promo campaigns were running at once that we smashed through a database limit! It's fixed now though, and Tuesday's lost night was run on Wednesday morning instead. Just note that Wednesday will have two updates: the catch-up and the normal late-night one. Sorry!
Friday 21 August 2026
New Your records can now go Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond! 💎 These are official certifications, awarded in the nightly update, and each one is dated and kept for good. They're earned in units. Every sale counts as one unit, and every 150 streams counts as one more, so older records that are still streaming finally count for something. The badge shows on the release page, in your catalogue and on your public profile, and each step up gets a post on the feed.
New There's a new page: your Discography! 📀 It lists every record you're on (singles, EPs and albums), newest first. Each one shows the highest world chart position it ever reached, its streaming peak, its units and its certification. You'll find it under My Music, next to Chart Watch. Chart Watch shows what's charting right now, whereas the Discography covers your whole career.
Fix The Propose button on the partner finder was taking up half the card on desktop. It's now a normal-sized button on the right, where it should have been all along.
Improved Cooldowns are easier to see now! ⏳ When you propose a collab, you see the other band's release cooldown before you send it. If their cooldown would last longer than the offer, the game stops you and tells you when to try again. The offer message also tells the featured band how long their own wait is. They don't need to decline, as offers stay open. The collabs page shows the wait on every pending offer from both sides, and the partner finder flags bands that are in a cooldown.
Improved The single, EP and album release pages now show where your record would come out before you spend a penny. You can see which markets you qualify for today, which are out of reach, and what happens if nowhere qualifies. A record can only sell and chart where it's released, so this lets you check before you commit.
Fix The release pages said you needed popularity 'above 5' for singles and 'above 25' for albums, but the real limits have always been above 4 and above 24. The pages now say that, and nothing about the game itself has changed. The Game Guide also said release cooldowns were in weeks, when they're actually in days.
Improved The propose-a-collab page now shows where the record would come out before you send the offer. You can see the markets you qualify for on your own, the ones your partner brings (that's the point of a collab!) and the ones that are out of reach for you both. It updates as you switch between single, EP and album.
Improved The 'Platinum release' and 'Diamond release' achievements now use the same units as the new certifications (15 million and 50 million), so Platinum and Diamond mean the same thing everywhere in the game. If you already hold either badge, you keep it. Nothing is ever taken back.
Tuesday 18 August 2026
Fix Oversight on my part - streaming position is now listed on album/EP/single screens. You'll see where the release sits on the world streaming chart right now, and the highest it has ever reached.
New Collabs are here! 🤝 You can now team up with another band on a single, an EP or a whole album. The lead band brings the songs and proposes the terms, including the split. The featured band pays that share of the bill and gets the same share of every sale, stream and point of score, anywhere from 20% to 50%. If you want them on the record itself, you can ask them to bring some of their own tracks, and they pick which ones. The record sells wherever either of you is popular, so switch on 'open to collabs' and the partner finder will show you who'd add the most audience. Both band names appear on the charts.
Thursday 30 July 2026
New Achievements have had a big overhaul! 🏆 Every achievement now shows how rare it is, on a scale that goes Garage → Club → Theatre → Arena → Stadium. You can see your progress towards every one of them, and a 'next up' list shows the ones you're closest to. Click any achievement to see who holds it, with the first 50 bands to earn it listed in order and dated. There are 24 new achievements, covering streaming, EPs, touring, number ones, the awards, rivalries, hype, world domination and songwriting. For the first time there are also achievements for managers, which show in your trophy cabinet. Every band now has a public trophy cabinet too. The new Hall of Fame lists the season champions, the most decorated cabinets, the top collectors by Achievement Score and the rarest honours in the game. Rare achievements also get a post on the feed saying how rare they are.
Fix EPs now count everywhere they should. EP chart positions and sales go towards the Chart-Topper, Platinum and Diamond achievements, and I've quietly credited any you'd already earned. Your EPs also count in rivalry week scoring now.
New The homepage now shows how many managers have been active in the last 24 hours, instead of who happened to be clicking around in the last 15 minutes. It's a more honest number.
Sunday 26 July 2026
New Genre waves are here! 🌊 Every few weeks a market falls for a genre, and sales and streams of that genre go up there while the wave lasts. It's announced on the feed and in your inbox, and World Tastes highlights it on the map, with a new wave history underneath. The release pages, Promote and the market shop all flag a wave your genre can catch, so you can time your releases around it. When a wave ends, the Wave Report names the band that rode it best and goes on the feed. The winner gets a 'Topped a genre wave' achievement, and every band that rode the wave gets a report message.
New The Game Guide is here! 📖 It explains how everything works in one place, including points, releases, promotion, touring, regions and seasons, with a few honest tips from me. You'll find it in the menu under Game Guide.
Saturday 25 July 2026
Fix If you released an album during the double-speed beta week, the switch to normal speed at launch stretched your wait for the next album. The beta's 7-day cooldown became 15 days partway through. I've credited every affected band the difference, so all 10 of you can release your next album right now. Thanks to the manager who reported it!
Wednesday 22 July 2026
New Albums and EPs now get a proper tracklisting. As well as picking your songs, you now set the running order. Click a song to add it, and move tracks up and down to decide what opens the record. The order you set is the order everyone sees on the release page.
New Every story on the feed now has comments. Tap the 💬 on any story to read what people have said or add your own (up to 280 characters). When someone comments on one of your stories, you'll get a message and a notification. If you join in on a thread, you'll also hear when other people reply. Please play nice, as the band being talked about is probably reading!
Monday 20 July 2026
Fix On a few forms, like cancelling a campaign, clicking Confirm on the 'are you sure?' pop-up did nothing at all. That's fixed, and they now go through properly.
Sunday 19 July 2026
Fix Popularity is back on its 0-100 scale. Stacking lots of campaigns could push popularity and notoriety far past the limit, and one band hit 324! Popularity now stops at 100 and notoriety at 125, and anyone who was over has been set back to the maximum. Campaigns you're running still work. They just can't take you any higher than that. Sales already made were left alone.
Improved The charts have been redesigned. The №1 now gets big artwork and the week's story, the top 10 get more space, and the rest line up below. One Charts page now covers singles, EPs, albums and streaming, with a proper switcher between them. The market picker is now a dial instead of a second row of tabs.
Improved I've tidied the menu. All the same links are still there, just in six sections instead of one giant Gameworld list. The four charts share a single Charts entry, with tabs on the page, and Chart Watch now sits with your music. There's also a Discord link, so you can come and shout at me directly!
Improved When a message mentions a page, like an award nomination, a rivalry declaration or a world event, it now links straight to it, so you don't have to go hunting through the menus.
Fix Two launch-day fixes. EPs now show on Chart Watch alongside singles and albums (sorry EP acts, you were charting all along!), and the Google sign-in button now has the proper multi-colour G.
Friday 17 July 2026
Fix Two quick fixes. The Promote page wasn't keeping your tier selection, because a bug in yesterday's update made clicks un-select themselves. That's fixed, and each section now has a proper Clear button too. Also, a huge cover on a release page no longer squeezes the stats into a sliver on wide screens.
Thursday 16 July 2026
Fix I've sorted out playlist campaigns. They now show as 🎧 Playlist pitch, with their streams boost, on your campaigns page and in the Weekly Rundown. They used to show as a generic 'Campaign' that seemed to do nothing. The booking cards now say 'streams ×' instead of wrongly claiming a boost to sales. A pitch aimed at a market that doesn't care for your genre can no longer reduce your streams. At worst it's money down the drain, never a penalty. The Promote page also now works the way it looks. You can pick a tier in each method you want, for example video, radio and playlist, and launch them all together. It used to book only your last click while the others just looked selected, so sorry if that caught you out. Click a selected tier again to clear it. If you re-book a method that's already running, it asks you to confirm first.
Improved A bit of a spring clean. Search now finds bands and releases from one box, and no longer searches people's real names or cities. Compare is now a proper head-to-head, with logos, a win tally and newer stats like streams and trophies. Hovering over a country on World Tastes now shows its full profile. I've also trimmed the menu a little.
New The homepage and your dashboard now show the current season, when it started, when it ends and how many days are left. Every season ends with the Awards, and you keep every trophy you win.
New You can now sign in with Google. It's one click to log in or create your account, with no password to remember. If your account already uses your Gmail address, Google sign-in connects to it automatically.
Fix Donations now really do credit your points automatically. A bug in how I checked PayPal's confirmation meant real donations weren't being recorded. A donor reported it and I fixed it the same day. If you donated and weren't credited, please contact me and I'll put it right.
New There's a new award at the ceremony: Most Streamed. It's the one category where singles, EPs and albums compete against each other, for the season's most-played release. Release pages now break your streams down by region, and the Weekly Rundown shows your streams alongside your sales.
Improved The image upload limit has gone up from 1 MB to 10 MB, and WebP files now work too. The game resizes everything automatically, so just upload your biggest, best file. Cover art now shows sharp at double the size on release pages. Band banners display as a proper wide strip (aim for 2400×500 with the focus in the centre). Sideways phone photos now straighten themselves out too.
Wednesday 15 July 2026
New Streaming is here! Every release now earns streams each game week, and older releases keep streaming long after they leave the sales charts. Streams pay a small royalty and count towards your score. There's a new Streaming Chart, your monthly listeners show on your profile, and you can pitch your releases to playlists from the Promotion hub.
New EPs are here! You can now release 4 to 6 tracks as an EP (Extended Play). It's cheaper and faster than an album, and EPs have their own Top 40 chart, their own 'EP of the Year' award and full promotion support. You'll find 'Release EP' in the Actions menu.
New You voted for no reset! The beta world is here to stay. Every band, song, chart run and trophy carries straight on into the full game.
Improved Albums can now hold 10 to 20 tracks (long requested!). An album's rating is the average of its 10 best tracks, so extra tracks can never bring it down, and a strong one can knock your weakest track out of the 10.
New Your band can now have a bio. Write it in Band Settings and it appears front and centre on your public profile. (You can stop hiding messages in your band members' names now... yes, I saw that!)
New Bands can now have a logo and a banner, uploaded from Band Settings. The square logo shows beside your band name and in the top bar, and the wide banner goes across the top of your profile.
Tuesday 14 July 2026
New The pages you see when you're signed out have been redesigned. The homepage now shows the world's current #1 single and album, with cover art. The sign-in and sign-up pages have been reworked, and the menu no longer overflows on phones.
New There's now a light mode! The sun/moon button in the top bar (and on the signed-out pages) switches the whole game between dark and light, awards ceremony included. It remembers your choice, and by default it follows your device's setting.
Improved The top bar now works on small phones. Your band's stats move to their own row instead of crowding the buttons, and Log out is now an icon.
New The Rockstar Game has a logo! The 'Admit One' ticket now sits at the top of the game and the sign-in pages, with a matching icon in your browser tab.
Improved Patrons now get a gold ★ next to their band's name everywhere in the game, including the charts, rankings, feed and awards.
New You can now support the game on Patreon. Link your Patreon account in Manager Settings and you'll get a small hourly points boost for your active band, plus a Patron badge on your bands.
New Every manager now has a public trophy cabinet. It shows the awards their bands have won across every season, along with a list of their bands. You can get to it from any band's profile or from your dashboard.
New Leaderboards, charts and profiles can now switch between all-time totals and this season's figures. From Season 1 onwards there's also a Newcomer award for the season's biggest climber.
Monday 13 July 2026
New The Rockstar Game Awards are here! Every season now ends with a ceremony for the best singles, albums and bands, and the trophies show on your band's profile.
Fix Saving your manager settings no longer switches off game-update emails by mistake.
Improved Cover artwork now shows on the charts and band profiles, not just the release pages.
New I've added a changelog, and you're reading it! New features and fixes will appear here as they go live.
Fix Donations now credit your points automatically once PayPal confirms.
Fix Single and album artwork now displays correctly after upload.
Sunday 12 July 2026
New The public beta has launched! It's a fresh world running at double speed (a game week every 12 hours) for one week.