# PopMCP URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en.md PopMCP publishes Popmundo guides on this site and in formats that AI tools can read directly. There are two ways to reach the guides: * **MCP server:** Tools that support MCP, such as Claude, ChatGPT and code editors, can search the guides and read pages directly. * **llms.txt and Markdown:** Any AI tool that can browse the web can read the page index and the Markdown version of every page. ## Explore the guides [#explore-the-guides] * [Music guide](/en/music/introduction-and-indexception): Music career guides in English. * [Türkçe rehberler](/tr): Turkish guides. Guides are written separately in each language, using that language’s Popmundo terminology. ## Connect with MCP [#connect-with-mcp] MCP (Model Context Protocol) gives AI tools a standard way to connect to outside sources. The PopMCP server needs no authentication or API key. | Setting | Value | | -------------- | ----------------------------------------- | | Server URL | `https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/mcp` | | Transport | Streamable HTTP | | Authentication | None | ### Tools [#tools] | Tool | What it does | Parameters | | ------------ | ----------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `search` | Searches the guide content. | `query` (required), `limit` (optional, 1–100), `locale` (`tr` or `en`, defaults to `tr`) | | `get_page` | Returns the full content of a page. | `path`, for example `/en/music/album` or `/tr/rehberler/tarif-malzemeleri` | | `list_pages` | Returns the index of all pages. | None | When searching English guides, set `locale` to `en`. ### Claude Code [#claude-code] Run this in a terminal: ```sh claude mcp add --transport http popmcp https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/mcp ``` Add `--scope user` to use the server in all your projects. Check the connection with `claude mcp get popmcp`. The tools appear in a new session. ### Claude (web and desktop) [#claude-web-and-desktop] 1. Open **Settings → Connectors**. 2. Choose **Add custom connector**. 3. Enter `PopMCP` as the name and `https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/mcp` as the URL. On Team and Enterprise plans, an organization admin adds custom connectors. ### ChatGPT [#chatgpt] Turn on developer mode in ChatGPT settings, then create a new connector with `https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/mcp` as the server URL and no authentication. Menu names can differ by plan and version. ### Code editors [#code-editors] For Cursor, add this to `~/.cursor/mcp.json`: ```json { "mcpServers": { "popmcp": { "url": "https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/mcp" } } } ``` For VS Code, add this to `.vscode/mcp.json` in your project: ```json { "servers": { "popmcp": { "type": "http", "url": "https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/mcp" } } } ``` Other tools that support remote (HTTP) MCP servers can use the same URL. ## Access with llms.txt and Markdown [#access-with-llmstxt-and-markdown] If your tool does not support MCP, give it one of these URLs. They are plain text files made for AI tools to read. | URL | Contents | | -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) | Index of pages in all languages, with a Markdown link for each page | | [/en/llms.txt](/en/llms.txt) | Index of English pages only | | [/en/llms-full.txt](/en/llms-full.txt) | Full content of all English guides | | [/tr/llms.txt](/tr/llms.txt) | Index of Turkish pages only | | [/tr/llms-full.txt](/tr/llms-full.txt) | Full content of all Turkish guides | Append `.md` to any page URL to get its Markdown version. For example, the Markdown version of `/en/music/album` is at `/en/music/album.md`. ### URL layout [#url-layout] * English pages start with `/en`, Turkish pages with `/tr`. * Guides are written separately per language; not every page exists in every language. ### Using chat assistants [#using-chat-assistants] Chat assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude usually open only URLs that you write in your message or that appear in search results. Write the full URL in your message: ```text Read https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/llms.txt and summarize the English music guides. ``` If the assistant says it cannot reach the site, use the MCP connection instead. # Album URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/album Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/album.md An album can consist of 8–12 songs. Although you have a choice, making your album consist of 12 songs is necessary to maximize its quality and raise sales. It is a type of record released every 112 days. Therefore, you need to prepare somewhat better for an album. As with a single, releasing an album early will cause sales to drop and the increase in power boost to be smaller. The selling price of one album is $15. Album sales do not require a popularity–fame difference, that is, the condition of a new song, as single sales do. In fact, using songs with higher fame positively affects album sales. The only point you need to pay attention to is that at least one of these 12 songs has popularity above zero. Otherwise, your album will not sell even a single copy. Although I think the ordering of the songs does not matter, my advice is to place your highest-quality song with the highest popularity and fame first. You can also use songs from past singles on your album. If possible, use the highest-quality songs in your repertoire on the album. However, you do not need to release your new and secret songs that have not yet been played merely to raise quality. The factors affecting album sales: * Song quality * Recording quality * Song popularity (at least one song having popularity above zero) * Market shares * City fame * Album release timing (112-day interval) Another difference between album and single sales is this: while city fame is more important in single sales, market shares carry the weight in album sales. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Attributes URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/attributes Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/attributes.md Experience points are a rookie’s most valuable treasure, a guide from knowledge. Because these points, which come in abundance at the beginning, will become harder to earn later. For a successful music career, I recommend developing all your personal attributes as much as possible in the following order. * Intelligence: It will provide significant benefits during the skill development process and later in stage tricks. * Musical Ability: The fundamental elements of music, such as composing songs and recording songs, gain value by developing this attribute. * Charm: It affects stage tricks, the performance score received on stage, and talking to the media. * Looks: It affects stage tricks and the performance score received on stage. It is also the most important attribute for music video shoots. * Voice: It affects stage tricks and the performance score received on stage. It has absolutely no connection to the lead vocals instrument skill! * Constitution: An attribute I think is useful for keeping your health high. That is all! Exactly 480 experience points. I suggest starting your calculations now: if 3 come weekly, 2 from quests, I celebrate my birthday, and a few from zombies. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Band Member Counts and Strategies URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/band-members-and-strategies Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/band-members-and-strategies.md Skills have developed, cheeks have become rosy, whoever’s diamond turned red ran to their instrument. After the necessary preparations, you have options such as forming a band or joining an existing band. Here I will examine artists according to their band member counts and leave the decision to you. Solo: With the strategy “One of us against all of you, let our song enter the radio charts,” perhaps the most difficult career path, where one person takes on every task that must be done in a band. While many people join forces, you will mumble the cities whose media power remains low before falling asleep at night: “Tromso, Milan, Paris, Melbourne…” All skills must be developed by one person, and enough songs for each tour must be obtained either by composing them or through the song market. It has an advantage such as getting more of an increase per update when talking to the media compared to larger bands. There is also a tiny little advantage in the star values received from tricks on stage. So, it is hard. Duo: With the strategy “Two of us against all of you, let our video enter the video charts”… I know it is not funny. These are bands where skills and tasks are distributed between two people. One person can focus on trick skills, or the two can distribute them between themselves. The greatest advantage of bands with more members is having more band members who can write hit songs (on average you write one a year; I will explain, do not get excited). Therefore, they are always one step ahead when preparing for competitions. Just like solo except there are two people. Two solos. Trio: All of yo… Things are heating up; as the number of members increases, our strength against all of you also increases. Three people is very nice, easy to organize. You can write many songs and continue your tour without neglecting talking to the media. Apart from being three people, it is not just like solo. It does not resemble it, that is. Quadruple: As if I made the same joke, move on without laughing. For me, four-person bands are the saturation point both in task distribution and in songwriting. It means, okay, that is enough now. All band members do not have to talk to the media at the same time. Video rehearsals and songwriting can be arranged without difficulty. It does not resemble four solos at all. The amount of increase received when talking to the media has decreased in direct proportion to the number of members. The star values received from tricks are also slightly lower than those of solo artists. Five is also the upper limit for the number of dominant instruments that can be added to a song. For this reason, bands with more than five members will not get the necessary efficiency from their songs and will experience a serious disadvantage. To summarize, as the number of band members increases, songwriting capacity increases, the rate of increase per update when talking to the media decreases, and the star values received from stage tricks decrease somewhat. Important Note: The friendship level between band members also has some effect on concerts. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Basic Information URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/basic-information Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/basic-information.md Popmundo is a deep blue planet made up of 49 cities, with a calendar year lasting 56 days. Artists travel from city to city giving concerts throughout the year to increase their fame, climb the charts and achieve certain achievements, and earn income from single and album sales. Within this busy pace, they also make time for special days and nights, hunting events, and piracy on the seven seas. You can find the expanded explanation of this summary below. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Big Bang URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/big-bang Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/big-bang.md ## Traditional Competitions [#traditional-competitions] Almost everyone involved in music dreams of one day earning achievements related to Big Bang, Popopalooza, and the Popmundo Festival, Popmundo’s most prestigious achievements. Of these globally organized competitions, Big Bang and Popopalooza are held every Popmundo year, while the Festival is held approximately once every 5–6 Popmundo years. People who achieve first place in all three of these competitions receive the Triad (trilogy) achievement. There are very few people on Popmundo who have this achievement. ## Big Bang [#big-bang] The ninth day of the Popmundo calendar is the day of the Big Bang competition. Artists take the stage at a venue called Mega Dome in Rio de Janerio. No criteria are required to participate in Big Bang. Starting from the first day of each year, you can register through Social > Big Bang by choosing a time between 12:00 and 22:00. The moment you register for Big Bang, all tickets for the 15,000 limit are sold. You cannot earn achievements related to ticket income and audience counts for this concert. If you cancel your Big Bang concert, you cannot register for Big Bang again within that year. Unlike other concerts, stage equipment is available ready-made at Mega Dome. You do not need to bring stage equipment with you. The use of special items in the stage plan is not permitted at a Big Bang concert. The only criterion for participating in Big Bang is that your artist is older than one Popmundo year. Achievements are distributed to those who place in their own music genre and in the overall list in Big Bang. You can access detailed information from the Big Bang heading under the Social menu. As a general strategy, concerts are arranged in stadiums before the Big Bang concert to ensure that songs reach maximum popularity. (Probably to be continued…) This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # City Fame URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/city-fame Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/city-fame.md The fundamental value to take into account for your ticket sales and record sales is your city fame. Also, the position of your fame average in the global ranking directly affects your band’s ranking. There are two factors that directly increase city fame: concerts and media power. Many other factors are reflected in your city fame through media power. Your city fame tends to decline over time. After 42 days have passed since your last visit, this decline becomes noticeable, and after 56 days, sharp declines begin. Canceling or missing a concert directly lowers your city fame. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Composing Songs URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/composing-songs Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/composing-songs.md There are indispensable skills and a musical attribute for composing songs. Unfortunately, unless you maximize these 3 skills and one attribute, the songs you write cannot go beyond being the lower steps of your career. * Musical Ability (the one in the attributes section, developed with experience points) * Basic Poetry * Basic Composing * Specialized Composing Skill (Crowd-Pleasing, Catchy, Folk Song, etc. Choosing and developing one is enough.) The skills are ready, but I have one last piece of information and warning for you about songwriting. With the change that was made, songs written by characters who have been with an artist for more than 56 days now receive a small extra score. Therefore, the value of songs you write in other bands or outside a band will be lower than those you write after staying in a band for more than 56 days. So I recommend making your artist plans before writing songs. If the final checks are done and the force shields are active, we are starting. We open the songs section on our character page and click the “on a new song…” part. After writing the song name (please do not give songs original names such as unknown artist track 01, 02… from the old Winamp list :p), below we will choose, in order, the music genre in which we will write the song, its original type in accordance with the specialized composing skill we have developed, and its tempo. You do not need to learn a music genre’s skill to write a song in that genre. Tempos go from slow to fast, with Lento > slowest and Presto > fastest. I do not think tempos affect the quality of the song. After making the necessary choices, we start our song by pressing the continue button. To work on it, we need to choose the composing music focus in the focuses section. After spending around 10–12 updates working on our song, with its dominant instruments also added (or you can add them after spending updates on your song), you can tell that your song is complete from a diary message similar to “I no longer need to work on xx.” Working on it any further after this point certainly adds nothing to the song. Also, if you finish your song before its progress bars are 100%, you will experience a serious drop in quality proportional to the missing part. Neither less nor more: when the bars are 100%. There are also strategies for writing songs other than spending updates. You can write a song from scratch with around 13–14 experience points. Its average quality will be so slightly lower than when you spend updates that it is not noticeable to the eye. You can use your surplus experience points this way later. You can also complete the part beyond 7–8 experience points with updates. In the reverse case, if you spend experience points on a song on which you have spent updates, you will receive half the increase you normally get, which means wasting the points. If you use the song you composed on a single, an album, or at any concert, the song’s aging process begins. Your song loses 1% of its maximum effectiveness every year. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Concert URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/concert Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/concert.md To introduce the songs you have added to your repertoire and fully rehearsed to the audience, next comes arranging and giving a concert. To play in a bar, you can use the booking assistant, or, as the more preferred method, send a message to bar chain owners and ask for invitations in accordance with your tour plan, if you have one. You can reach bar chain owners through music genre topics in the general forums or through the company forum. Apart from bars, you can also give concerts in stadiums; we will discuss this separately. Your ticket limit for a concert in a bar is 10,000. If no tickets at all are sold for the concert you arranged, unfortunately your concert fails and receives a much lower score than it should. Therefore, you should arrange your concerts in advance in a planned way. Ticket prices and your average city fame also affect your ticket sales, with fame in that city having the greatest effect. A low ticket price does not directly increase your ticket sales; it only increases their speed. Its indirect effect is that you sell more tickets from a high level before your city fame starts to decline. Your tickets will sell much faster in a bar of your own music genre. Experienced bar owners will help you with ticket pricing appropriate to your fame level. Still, it is useful to check your ticket sales from time to time. I will discuss other concert details in the tour plan and stage plan sections. If you cannot make it to a concert, you should cancel it. Your fame will drop sharply according to the number of tickets sold, but will rise again over time. To make up for this drop, you should give a concert shortly afterwards. If you happen to miss the concert, this time, because the average of the concerts within that year is taken, a zero-point concert will pull down the average and your fame will remain stuck at a certain level that year. Best of all is to miss no concerts. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Cover Songs URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/cover-songs Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/cover-songs.md At the beginning of your career, if you have not yet written your own songs and buying songs from the market is not an option for you, cover songs are great as a starting point. In short, covering means other artists playing on stage songs that have been released or recorded on other artists’ albums and singles. To add cover songs to your repertoire, you can open the radio charts in the rankings section and choose songs currently near the top of the charts or songs that will reach the top within a week or two. What you need to pay attention to is that the songs you choose are in the same music genre as yours and that the dominant instruments match your stage roles as much as possible. A good cover song should have fame that has not yet turned yellow, have managed to enter the radio charts, and have popularity on an upward curve. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Crew URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/crew Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/crew.md We need help from people specialized in this field to get more efficiency from our stage equipment and in a few other matters related to our band. This is exactly where our crew comes in. This team of unsung heroes performs many tasks, from your spoiled requests to setting up stage equipment and doing promotion to raise your market shares. Crew salaries are paid weekly. As your city fame increases, crew salaries will also increase proportionally. At the same time, regularly every Wednesday afternoon, the crew’s morale level drops by half a point. If you do not keep their morale high by regularly giving bonuses, after a while you may not get 5\* from your stage equipment. You must not neglect the bonuses of civil servants and crew members. Crew members gain approximately 1 star of skill per Popmundo year. If a new member joins them, the average is taken and the crew’s star value drops somewhat. Therefore, if possible, I recommend completing your entire crew at the very beginning. Lighting Technician: The name gives it away; these friends play with lights. Apparently they used to turn lamps on and off when they were little, too. 2 are enough. Let them shine lights on each other. Personal Assistant: Crew members who look after artists personally. They affect meeting your fans after the concert. If there are not as many personal assistants as people in the band, groupies may not find their way after the concert. Accountant: The friend who will count the money from sales. The cash register. I do not know whether there is an effect; it is useful to have one person. Roadie: Crew members responsible for setting up stage equipment. Each roadie can theoretically set up 10,000 watts of equipment per hour. Based on this calculation, you will need 10 roadies for 5\* stage equipment. Sound Technician: So-so, sound check, one two. I will not say what they do. Call 2 of them over. Driver: They do the coming and going of the tour vehicle. These friends also fly the jet vehicle without being pilots; who knows what they are drinking. There should be 2. Promoter: These friends are responsible for the band’s advertising work; their effects can be seen in market shares. You will see quite a benefit from 10 promoters. After 10, the effect decreases cumulatively and even starts causing harm after a point. Tour Manager: Another very useful employee. Who knows what jobs they do that we do not know about. Let there be one person, what can we say. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Dominant Instruments URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/dominant-instruments Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/dominant-instruments.md To finish a song, we need to choose at least one dominant instrument. Adding dominant instruments appropriate to the first roles of everyone in the band is necessary and sufficient. For example, adding 2 lead vocals and one electric guitar as dominant instruments to a song in a band whose primary stage roles are Lead Singer/Lead Singer/Electric Guitarist. I also want to give you a tip about how songs with instrument mismatches will be affected. Assuming there are 4 songs of the same quality, their effects from highest to lowest are: * Songs in which all added instruments match band members’ first stage roles * Songs in which all added instruments match band members’ first or second stage roles * One or more of the instruments added to the song are not present among the band members * One or more of the band members’ instrument roles are missing from the song ## Seeds of Inspiration [#seeds-of-inspiration] As for songs with seeds, as you know, a seed of inspiration helps us raise the quality of our song by 1–2 levels by allowing us to give it more updates. It also reduces the song’s originality according to the number of seeds used. In my experiments, I saw that the best result came from using a single seed on a song. The decline in originality shortens the song’s lifespan while also causing some decrease in the score the song receives on stage. There are 4 valid ways to obtain seeds of inspiration. I will explain them from the least useful to the most useful. 1. Gaining inspiration by busking: Unfortunately, this method does not work for friends with high musical ability. You waste time and health. 2. Illegal downloading: This will also disappoint friends with high musical ability, but it is more useful than busking. 3. Partying until morning: You can get a seed of inspiration by having fun in bars until morning and spending some money. It is especially useful for friends who have the Party Organizing skill (or whatever its name is), because there is no health cost. 4. Seeds from fortune-telling: Here we have arrived at the source of seeds. First, we tell our own fortune if we have the skill, or have someone who knows how do it. Not just once, either: until our fortune says, “I am in a good period for writing songs.” Good, our fortune said it would help us, so what should we do? The realization or validity of the prophecy in our fortune lasts 3 days. During the 3-day period after this text appears in our fortune, there is a chance of receiving a seed at the 24th, 48th, and 72nd hours. Also, for a seed to arrive, it is enough for our priority to be “composing music” at the 24th, 48th, and 72nd hours. In other words, while we are developing skills, having composing music as our priority only at these specific hours after the text appears in our fortune will meet the minimum condition for a seed to arrive; the rest is up to popgod. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Encore URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/encore Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/encore.md The word’s expanded form in English is Back In Stage, and it is the song we play after leaving the stage and after the audience calls us back. Encores are scored differently from normal songs and require different conditions. A high-quality encore song can raise your concert by a few points, while a bad one can lower your score. There are two types of songs you can choose as an encore in your repertoire: a new song with high and rising popularity, generally your song with a video. Assuming you will have a song with a video together with a single every 28 days, you will continually have a good encore song in 28-day periods this way. The other is what we call an oldie: songs used approximately 1 real-life year ago, with fame at 100% or very high, but whose popularity has declined, reached zero, and stabilized at that level. When used as an encore after popularity reaches zero, it follows an increase curve similar to normal songs and succeeds as an encore even at low popularity. Oldies that are hits and have reached 100% fame are the highest quality. Oldie encores can be used repeatedly; after each use you will need to wait a few months for them to reach zero again. Do not be sad if you do not have an oldie encore; in many conditions, your new songs with videos will have a greater effect than oldie encores. Dominant instrument compatibility is not required in encore songs as it is in normal songs. Therefore, you can use even very old songs in your band as encores. Likewise, if your songs with videos have dominant instrument problems, their score will not be low when you make them encores. Factors affecting the success of an encore: * Song quality * Song fame * Song popularity * Audience enjoyment after leaving the stage * The band’s ambition level (high/normal/low/boosted) * The band’s fame (average city fame) * City fame This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Essential Skills for a Music Career URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/essential-skills Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/essential-skills.md ## Essential Skills and Attributes for a Music Career [#essential-skills-and-attributes-for-a-music-career] One of the best things you can do for your career is to prioritize developing the necessary and indispensable skills. If you think you will not get bored, you can spend a long time at university developing skills, or you can develop the basic skills and enter musical life, saying that the caravan will get organized along the way. The skills I call indispensable for music are: * Basic Instrument Skill (Basic String Instruments, Basic Singing, etc.) * Instrument Skill (Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Lead Vocals, etc.) * Second Basic Instrument Skill or Basic Dancing * Second Instrument Skill or Professional Dancing * Basic Composing * Basic Poetry * Specialized Composing Skill (Composing Catchy Music, Composing Folk Songs, etc.) * Music Genre Skill (Modern Rock, Jazz, etc.) * Basic Acting * Basic Sex Appeal * Basic Media Management Optional or lower-priority ones: * Basic Makeup * Public Relations * Public Speaking * Mastery of Mentoring * Basic Yoga or Martial Arts * Advanced Yoga or Martial Arts Masteries (Aikido, Juijutsu, etc.) The skills used in stage tricks will be discussed in detail in the tricks section. In short, if you are going to perform tricks on stage, depending on the situation: * Basic Showmanship * Professional Showmanship * Relevant Trick Skills They can be divided into these three parts. Developing the skills in the first part will make you a band member who can write songs and get full performance on stage even if you cannot perform tricks. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Extra Services URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/extra-services Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/extra-services.md Before a concert, every artist, modest or spoiled, has certain requests from the venue where they will perform. These are called extra services, and you can find them in the extra services section on the artist page. When requested correctly, extra services contribute a certain mood increase. Requesting too few or too many can also lower your mood. The cost of extra services is paid after the concert by the venue where you performed. An easy method for determining extra services is that you can cheat by looking at a band whose fame level is similar to yours and which is satisfied with its extra services. Or you can find the service range appropriate for you by adding and removing them one by one. As your fame level increases, your demand for extra services and the amount requested for the same service will increase. Extra services have no effect on your concert level. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Groupies and Fans URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/groupies-and-fans Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/groupies-and-fans.md Your fans who love you line up backstage after a concert, sometimes to meet you and sometimes to do crazy things together. From the settings on your character page, you can decide who you want to show interest in you after concerts. To be intimate with and spend time with your fans, your city fame needs to be around decent (10) or slightly above. Spending time with your fans contributes 1–2% to your personal fame. However, as a result of this adventure, you may catch gonorrhea. When you rent a private jet, if you select “Allow groupies to hang out,” you can join the Mile High club, that is, the club of those who are intimate on a plane. This similarly increases your personal fame. If groupies do not come after a concert despite everything being as it should, check whether there are as many personal assistants in your crew as people in your band. Also, groupies are affected by sex addiction and the newly added locked chastity thing. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Hit Songs URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/hit-songs Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/hit-songs.md A hit song means the highest-quality song you can write with your current skills. It is generally of EPIC–EPIC (26–26) quality or slightly below, and it appears in the diary as “I think I did it this time, I wrote a hit song.” This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Instruments URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/instruments Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/instruments.md Personal musical tools that affect the personal performance score you receive on stage and whose absence causes a large drop are called instruments. Instruments come with zero history when purchased, and their history starts to gain stars as they are used. The first few stars are gained relatively quickly, but reaching 5\* for an instrument takes 2 real-life years with regular concerts and constant tuning and polishing. Polishing and tuning your instruments is enough to get a full stage score. The contribution of high-star instruments in this regard is not at a level that will change your life. If you wish, you can carry your instruments on you or leave them in your tour vehicle. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Introduction and Indexception URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/introduction-and-indexception Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/introduction-and-indexception.md Hello. I am here again to update the “Career Guide” project I made years ago and to create a guide for those who will enter the music industry, the most enjoyable part of Popmundo, those looking for advice, those who will compare their knowledge and say, “Actually, that is not how it works,” and the tiny little second generations. This guide, which I prepared based on the information I have acquired, my experiences, and what I have learned, is never 100% correct. I may have omissions and even incorrect information. You can always send a message about corrections. I wish everyone a wonderful music career. “A truly breathtaking guide, practically a bedside reference.” 10/10 – The Insider ## Music Guide Index [#music-guide-index] * [Introduction and Indexception](/en/music/introduction-and-indexception) * [Basic Information](/en/music/basic-information) 2327027.2 * [Essential Skills for a Music Career](/en/music/essential-skills) 2327027.2 * [Attributes](/en/music/attributes) 2327027.3 * [Band Member Counts and Strategies](/en/music/band-members-and-strategies) 2327027.3 - 2327027.4 * [Stage Roles](/en/music/stage-roles) 2327027.4 * [Personal Stage Performance](/en/music/personal-stage-performance) 2327027.5 * [Music Genres](/en/music/music-genres) 2327027.5 * [Repertoire](/en/music/repertoire) 2327027.5 * [Cover Songs](/en/music/cover-songs) 2327027.6 * [Composing Songs](/en/music/composing-songs) 2327027.6 - 2327027.7 * [Dominant Instruments](/en/music/dominant-instruments) 2327027.7 * [Hit Songs](/en/music/hit-songs) 2327027.8 * [Song Market](/en/music/song-market) 2327027.8 * [Rehearsal Session](/en/music/rehearsal-session) 2327027.9 * [Recording Session](/en/music/recording-session) 2327027.9 * [Recording Contract](/en/music/recording-contract) 2327027.10 * [Single](/en/music/single) 2327027.10 * [Album](/en/music/album) 2327027.11 * [Release Parties](/en/music/release-parties) 2327027.11 * [Scene Rehearsal](/en/music/scene-rehearsal) 2327027.12 * [Music Video](/en/music/music-video) 2327027.12 * [Concert](/en/music/concert) 2327027.13 * [Tour](/en/music/tour) 2327027.13 * [Stadiums](/en/music/stadiums) 2327027.14 * [Stage Plan Strategies](/en/music/stage-plan-strategies) 2327027.15 * [Encore](/en/music/encore) 2327027.16 * [Radio and Video Charts](/en/music/radio-and-video-charts) 2327027.16 * [Market Share and Music Genre Popularity](/en/music/market-share-and-genre-popularity) 2327027.17 * [Television Shows](/en/music/television-shows) 2327027.17 * [Extra Services](/en/music/extra-services) 2327027.18 * [Stage Equipment](/en/music/stage-equipment) 2327027.18 * [Crew](/en/music/crew) 2327027.19 * [Tour Vehicle](/en/music/tour-vehicle) 2327027.20 * [Media Power](/en/music/media-power) 2327027.21 * [City Fame](/en/music/city-fame) 2327027.21 * [WiW](/en/music/wiw) 2327027.22 * [Power Boost](/en/music/power-boost) 2327027.23 * [Instruments](/en/music/instruments) 2327027.23 * [Groupies and Fans](/en/music/groupies-and-fans) 2327027.24 * [Personal Fame](/en/music/personal-fame) 2327027.24 * [Saint Kobe’s Day](/en/music/saint-kobes-day) 2327027.24 * [Big Bang](/en/music/big-bang) 2327027.25 * [Popopalooza](/en/music/popopalooza) 2327027.26 * [Popmundo Festival](/en/music/popmundo-festival) 2327027.27 This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Market Share and Music Genre Popularity URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/market-share-and-genre-popularity Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/market-share-and-genre-popularity.md Another fundamental element affecting single and album sales together with city fame is market shares. Your market shares are shaped according to original music genre popularity and the musical subgenre you use in your repertoire and on the records you release. Music genre popularity is updated every Thursday. Market shares, on the other hand, are updated differently for each band according to possible changes in the band’s market shares. Music genre popularities are the same for every genre, so market shares do not create a difference between genres in terms of competition. Because market shares greatly affect your sales, you should check music genre popularities weekly. The music genre at the top of this list is determined according to the average in the women, men, young men, and young women lists. In short, you can choose the subgenre at the very top. You just need to follow the weekly rising and falling trends carefully and try to predict the subgenre that will be at the top when you release your record. This is much more important especially when you will release an album, because an album released every 112 days has approximately 4 times the effect of a single on market shares. Choosing the wrong subgenre will keep your market shares at a low level for a long time. Your market shares are also directly affected by your band’s city fame and rise as your fame rises. Promoters in your crew are another factor affecting your market share. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Media Power URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/media-power Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/media-power.md Concerts alone can raise your city fame only to a certain level. To have higher fame and hold on at those levels, you should support your fame by increasing media power. Because media power affects your city fame, it indirectly makes a great contribution to your career. The factors increasing media power are: * Talking to the media * Giving concerts * Radio charts * Television shows (applies only to the city where the show takes place) * Release parties * Trashing the hotel when leaving a city The most effective way to increase media power is talking to the media. After you establish a routine for your career, most of your time on tour will be spent talking to the media. The increases your band receives from talking to the media depend on the number of members in your band, how developed the members’ media-related skills are, and current media power. As the number of members increases, the increase received per person in one update decreases. Likewise, as your media power increases, the amount of increase per update decreases. This also applies to other factors affecting media power. The skills affecting talking to the media are: * Basic Media Management * Public Speaking * Professional Public Relations * Mentoring Apart from these skills, there are a few other skills thought to have an effect, such as basic comedy; because their effects are not cumulative, you do not need them when you have these skills. The media power increase from concerts depends both on media power and on when you last gave a concert in that city. The shorter the time between two concerts, the smaller the increase received. Your media power tends to decline over time. Therefore, increases from radio charts and release parties become very important during periods when you have no concert in that city. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Music Genres URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/music-genres Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/music-genres.md There are 17 different music genres you can choose to start your career. The choice here can mostly be made in line with your understanding of role-playing. In a crowded music genre, it is harder to enter the radio charts and climb to the top of the charts. This can set your career back somewhat compared to artists in less crowded music genres. Apart from that, there is theoretically no difference between making Latin music and dancing, and making rock music and smashing instruments. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Music Video URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/music-video Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/music-video.md To raise your songs’ popularity a little above the levels reached by concerts and get your song into the radio charts, you need to release a video. You can arrange a shoot for a video whose scene rehearsal you have completed. Arrange a shoot for the video from the screen where you view video rehearsals. The quality of the venue you arrange is quite important for the quality of the shoots. From the rankings section, you can view the highest-quality parks globally and arrange your shoot accordingly. A video shoot lasts approximately 3 hours 45 minutes. You should use your health-, fame-, or mood-boosting items and your makeup kit before the video finishes. If you use them toward the end of this period, you minimize the health or fame decline from an update you receive. If you are not satisfied with the quality of your shoot, you can simply arrange another video shoot in the same way without damaging your rehearsals. Many bands comfortably shoot videos at EPIC level, so do not hesitate to try if you believe you can do better. Videos are released every 28 days just like singles, and depending on your strategy, you can release them together with the single. If you raise the song you shot to 35–40% popularity before the video is released, you get maximum efficiency from the radio charts and the popularity increase. If you do not release the video you shot within 14 days, its score starts to drop. Therefore, shooting close to the release date is to your benefit. Videos are affected by release timing more than records. As much as possible, do not release your video early. Factors effective in video shoots: * Basic Acting skill * Your looks (found in the attributes section) * Your rehearsal level * The quality and condition of the venue where the shoot takes place * Your personal fame * Your health and mood * Your director’s health, mood, and skills (Basic Photography, Cinematography, your music genre skill) This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Personal Fame URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/personal-fame Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/personal-fame.md The popularity you gain from your music career, the profession you have, and the people you hang out with is called personal fame. It is also commonly known as star quality (SQ). The factors increasing your personal fame are: * Dating or having sex with people with high personal fame * Your ranking in your music career * Fame increases from groupies and your fans * Increases from television shows * Increases from certain special objects and foods * Your profession (professions that are not exclusive to VIP users have a negative effect on your personal fame. The greatest contribution of your personal fame to your career is its effect on your video performance. Also, if your personal fame is 50% or above, you can use a stage name. After setting a stage name once, you can use it even if your fame falls below 50%. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Personal Stage Performance URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/personal-stage-performance Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/personal-stage-performance.md Independent of the songs played at a concert, each band member also has an individual performance value, and it directly affects the concert result. We can list the factors affecting the score you receive on stage as follows: * Stage role skills (skills in the first and second roles) * Having the instruments for your stage roles * Health and mood * Looks, charm, and voice attributes, in order of importance * Basic Sex Appeal * Instrument condition (you can increase it by tuning and polishing) * Instrument history (star value) * Age In addition to the above, how busy your schedule is also affects your stage performance. If you perform too many concerts, record, and rehearse consecutively, your stage performance may drop. When you meet all the criteria completely, you generally receive a 4.5\* rating on stage. If you have a busy schedule, it drops to 4\*. You rarely give a 5\* performance. At a boosted ambition level, the performance value you receive on stage also increases. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Popmundo Festival URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/popmundo-festival Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/popmundo-festival.md At the very end of our guide is Popmundo’s most prestigious competition, the Popmundo Festival. The Festival is organized approximately once every 4–5 Popmundo years on dates determined by the game developers. It is a two-stage competition. As a result of the qualifying round held in 10 cities, also determined by the developers, a total of 30 bands giving the top 3 performances in each city, and, apart from these bands, the top 5 of the best-performing bands, earn the right to give concerts in the finals. The qualifying round lasts 3 days. There is a gap of approximately 10 days between the qualifying round and the final round. Afterwards, the 3-day final round begins. All bands that qualify to play in the final receive the “I played at the Festival” achievement. Placement awards are also given to the top 3 bands. You can access detailed information about the Festival from the Popmundo Festival heading in the Social menu. (Probably to be continued…) This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Popopalooza URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/popopalooza Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/popopalooza.md It is a competition that starts on the 13th day of the Popmundo calendar and lasts approximately 9–10 days or 9–10 rounds. No criteria are required to participate in Popopalooza. Starting from the first day of each year, you can register through Social > Popopalooza. The competition works as follows: participating artists can give concerts at venues of their choice. Until 00:00 CET, the most successful concert they have given within that day is entered into the ranking. In every round, the best 50% of bands that give concerts advance to the next round. The competition continues this way until only one artist remains at the end. Because those who make it beyond the fifth round of Popopalooza earn an achievement, many bands boost their ambition level. Also, bands coming from the Big Bang event with a high-quality repertoire will make things difficult for Popopalooza competitors in the first 5–6 rounds. Achievements are distributed to those who pass the fifth round in Popopalooza, the band that comes first in the final round, and one (or two bands) eliminated in the final round. You can access detailed information about Popopalooza from the Popopalooza heading in the Social menu. Similar to the Big Bang competition, stadium concerts are arranged starting before the event to try to raise song popularities to the maximum level. (Probably to be continued…) This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Power Boost URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/power-boost Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/power-boost.md Some efforts you make for your career come back to you as power boost. Power boost increases by a standard 1% every day. Depending on the level of your concert and the audience size (concerts with very small audiences do not contribute to your power boost), you can receive up to 15% power boost. After your career settles into a routine, increases from concerts will remain at around 3%. The power boost increase from records depends on the record’s quality and timing. Records released one after another either do not increase power boost at all or provide a very, very small increase. A single released on time provides approximately 55%, and an album 100%, power boost increase. You can use power boost in 3 ways: Boost audience enjoyment: By adding it to your stage plan from the general tricks section, you can raise audience enjoyment to the SPLENDID (25) level. If audience enjoyment reaches this value toward the end of the concert, you can place it near the end. If your songs receive very high values, you can use it at the very beginning of the concert and get the audience excited from the start. You can find the amount that will be spent from your power boost by subtracting the audience enjoyment at the moment the trick is used from the SPLENDID (25) level. For example, let audience enjoyment be at the terrific (18) level when you perform the boost enjoyment trick. 25−18=7. Each level spends approximately 5% power boost. 7×5=35. There will be an approximately 35% decrease in your power boost. Your power boost does not need to be completely full to use the boost enjoyment trick at your concerts. Boost repertoire: Raises the rehearsal levels of all songs in your repertoire to 100%. Songs with no musical subgenre selected also have their rehearsals raised to 100%. When starting a new tour, you can use your power boost instead of rehearsing dozens of songs. You need 100% power boost, and all of it is spent. Boost ambition level: When you enter a competition in your career or prepare to give a high-level concert, by boosting your ambition level you can gain an increase of up to 3–4 levels depending on the situation. When you boost your ambition level, you perform your next concert with this ambition. Your health does not experience much of a decline in the concert for which you boosted ambition. You need 100% power boost, and all of it is spent. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Radio and Video Charts URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/radio-and-video-charts Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/radio-and-video-charts.md How successful you are in your career is measured by your place in the charts. At the same time, some of these charts also contribute to you beyond achievement points. Radio charts and video charts are updated in the early hours of every Wednesday. The prerequisite for a song to enter these charts is that it has been released on a single. In fact, as the first song of a single. Entering the radio charts gives your song a daily popularity increase according to your position on the chart. This amount is around 1–2%. Also, when the radio charts update on Wednesdays, they give an increase of around 1–4% in media power according to your position in the rankings. It is easier to enter the radio charts while the record is new. Therefore, you should adjust your song’s popularity and release your video so that you can enter the charts in the single’s first or second week. If you release your video together with the single, having your song at 35–40% before release will let you enter the radio charts in the first week and help you compete for the top in the second week. Radio charts are calculated for each country; in countries containing fewer cities, it is easier to raise your average fame and enter the charts in high positions. Factors affecting entry into the radio charts: * Song popularity * Song quality * Single quality * Video quality * City fame * How new the single and video are There is no popularity increase in the video charts as there is in the radio charts, and there are no separate charts for each music genre. Compared to the radio charts, song popularity and city fame are much more important in the video charts. The affecting factors are almost the same. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Recording Contract URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/recording-contract Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/recording-contract.md Before moving on to singles and albums, we need a studio that can release these records. You can find many producers working with successful artists both through the forums and through Rankings > Highest-Quality Venues (recording studios). The greatest contribution a producer can give you will be their experience and knowledge of music. It is also in your interest to choose a producer who is active enough to release your records and videos on time and not create stock problems. There is one more thing your producer can give you: advertising level. The advertising service, consisting of 5 levels, acts exactly like a parachute that slows the decline of your city fame; you do not see sharp drops. The quality difference between advertising levels increases with cumulatively diminishing returns. In other words, while there is a very big difference between levels 1 and 2, there is very little difference between levels 4 and 5. For this reason, level 5 advertising should only be provided when you have nowhere else to spend your money. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Recording Session URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/recording-session Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/recording-session.md If you want to climb higher in your career, we need to release singles and albums. For this, you must first choose the tracks that will appear on the records, fully rehearse them, and record them. You can arrange a recording session using the booking assistant or through Songs > Recording Sessions on your artist page. The first property you should look at in the studio where you will record is how high its quality is. The studio’s music genre strength does not affect your recordings, so you can directly prefer the venues at the very top of the quality ranking. After arranging the recording session, it is time to find a producer. This person can be one of the band members, or you can invite someone from outside as producer. An outside producer will perform better than someone within the band. You can also raise the recording’s performance score by separately inviting the outside producer to participate in your recordings. The points you need to pay attention to when recording a song, from more to less important, are: * The rehearsal level of the song to be recorded * The quality of the studio where the recording will take place * The producer’s musical ability (the attribute) * The producer’s music genre skill level * The band members’ musical ability * The producer’s recording skill level * The producer’s mood * The band members’ mood A recording session may last around 2.5 hours or 3.5 hours; it is not possible to predict how long it will take when it begins. Therefore, you should always leave a 4-hour gap for a recording session. You can see how successful the recording session was in the production and performance sections after recording. Perfect production and performance is quite a good level. You can see your song’s average recording quality through Artist > Songs. You can confidently use songs with 5\* recording quality. You have a chance of making a higher-quality recording in better conditions (higher mood, etc.), so you can delete recordings you are not satisfied with and try your luck again. Recording performance and production above revolutionary, which is one level above perfect, are very rarely achieved. Therefore, wherever you see revolutionary, you can stop trying for something better. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Rehearsal Session URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/rehearsal-session Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/rehearsal-session.md To get efficiency from the songs we have added to the repertoire, we need to arrange a rehearsal session and raise their practice level. To arrange a session, you can use Schedule > Arrange Rehearsal Session or the booking assistant. Rehearsal sessions last approximately 4 hours; they finish sooner, but unless something goes wrong with the game engines, they do not exceed 4 hours. For a rehearsal session to succeed, at least 50% of band members must attend. The remaining 50% can wander around here and there; no big problem :p You can rehearse at most 10 songs at once. You can choose your songs until the rehearsal session ends. If you do not choose a subgenre specific to your music genre for the songs you will rehearse, you cannot raise the rehearsal level above a certain percentage. Playing songs at concerts also increases their rehearsal by around 2 percentage points. Rather than arranging a session and lowering your mood for a song whose rehearsal remains at a level such as 95–96, its rehearsal will already be complete after 2–3 concerts. Your success in a rehearsal session depends, from most to least, on your music genre skill, how many songs you rehearse at once, how many band members attend the rehearsal, and the quality of the venue where you rehearse. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Release Parties URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/release-parties Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/release-parties.md When releasing the records you have prepared, you can arrange a party both to celebrate and to contribute to fame before sales. If the record released is a single, release parties give a popularity increase to both songs, more to the song in first place. If the record released is an album, all songs benefit equally from this popularity increase. The more popular the songs on the record are, the smaller the contribution from the release party will be. Release parties contribute to cities’ media power and indirectly to city fame. The party’s effect increases in proportion to the money spent on it. You can find the balance between money spent and efficiency obtained for your band by experimenting, or you can benefit from the results compiled at the link below. [Compiled results](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DItfn04Qtv3VcQ4JNgXyzIoDqU3EN7erVDF9-z9z-pI/pubhtml#) To organize a release party, you first need to send your record to your record company. Afterwards, you can arrange your party from the release parties section on your artist page. Remember that the earliest you can arrange a release party is 3 days, that is, 72 hours, later, and act quickly. Choose the time and place in accordance with your tour plan, determine the services you want to use, and arrange your party. If you wish, you can also invite your friends to the party after arranging it. Your release party will start automatically when its time comes, and when the party ends your record will have been automatically released. Only your record is released with the party; if you have a video, your producer must release it. Remember, if your recording studio does not order CDs for the record for which you have arranged a party, your party may fail. You can arrange single release parties no earlier than 27 days after the previous record, and album release parties no earlier than 111 days after the previous one. My advice is to make your plans carefully, avoid delays, and always release your records accompanied by a party. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Repertoire URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/repertoire Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/repertoire.md ## Writing Songs and Building a Repertoire [#writing-songs-and-building-a-repertoire] Songs lie at the heart of music, and this is also the case in Popmundo. Although you have the option of using cover songs at the beginning of your career, you cannot reach the level of competing in major competitions without writing your own songs. Even songs you buy from the market will pale beside songs you write yourself. If we need to rank them: Your own song > Song bought from the market > Cover, from higher to lower quality. ## Repertoire [#repertoire] The repertoire is one of the sections you will visit most frequently throughout your career, where you can see the new and old songs your band owns and sort them by criteria such as rehearsal level, quality, popularity, etc. Using the repertoire features, you can manage your songs by cross-sorting them through two tabs by age, music genre, popularity, fame, rehearsal, quality, stage impact, and musical subgenre. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Saint Kobe’s Day URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/saint-kobes-day Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/saint-kobes-day.md The 40th day of every Popmundo year is celebrated as Saint Kobe’s Day. The feature of this day is that, if you can successfully complete one of the trails you choose in 4 cities, you are entitled to receive 1\* in a music genre skill of your choice. You can enter 1 trail per year. By entering the trail again and again every year, you can increase the star level of different music genre skills without developing skills. You can access detailed information about Saint Kobe’s Day trails and maps here: 2241740.1 This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Scene Rehearsal URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/scene-rehearsal Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/scene-rehearsal.md If we want the first songs of the singles we release to enter the charts and become more popular, the way to do this is to make a video. Before making a video, you also need to fully rehearse the scene. If you wish, after recording the song for which you will make a video, you can create your video through Artist > Videos, or start rehearsal for any recorded song you have. Before the shoot, you can change the song being rehearsed without affecting the rehearsal amounts. This way, you can get your rehearsal out of the way at the first opportunity without waiting for the recording of the song for which the video will be made. Afterwards, choosing scene rehearsal from your focuses and selecting the scene you will rehearse will be enough. With increases of 18–21% per update, our scene rehearsal will finish in 5–6 updates. If you start two scene rehearsals at the same time, your scene rehearsal amounts decline over time. Therefore, I do not recommend starting to rehearse the scene for another video before shooting one. While rehearsing the scene, you should also determine a director for the video. If the director is within the band, rehearsing only as an actor is enough. They will receive points as both an actor and director in the video. If someone from outside the band directs, you must invite them for scene rehearsal and have them rehearse like the actors. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Single URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/single Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/single.md ## Records [#records] There are two types of records in the game on which you record and release your songs. Singles and albums should be among your high priorities as an artist, both for advancing your career and for earning money from music. Singles and albums differ in many respects, so we will examine them under separate headings. ## Single [#single] A single consists of two songs. For maximum efficiency, it should be released every 28 days. Once 27 days have passed since the previous record’s release, you can release your single without suffering any loss. Records released early both sell less and contribute less to your power boost. The selling price of one single is $3.5. Ask for it at all music stores. The single’s quality score is determined by the average quality and recording quality of the two songs. The song you place first is called the first song or the a-side. This song can enter the radio charts much more easily than the second song. Therefore, the first song is the one whose popularity you will raise and which you will take to the top of the charts, and from which you will also get greater efficiency on stage thanks to this high popularity. The second song should be used as a balancing song for sales; it is also known as the b-side. In single sales, the system takes the popularity–fame difference into account. When a song’s fame starts to rise above 16%, its daily popularity decreases start to become noticeable. You need to keep your second song right at this boundary. A new song with fame of 15–16 will also have popularity of around 16–17. When making this fine popularity calculation, you should also take into account the popularity increase that will come from the release party. After keeping and saving your second song at these levels for 7–8 weeks, you can put it to use by playing it at your concerts. The highest quality level for a single is earth-shaking. To reach this quality, both songs used must be chosen from HIT songs, and at least one of the performance or production scores in the recording quality section must be revolutionary. Sometimes even this may not be enough. When choosing your songs, do not neglect to place the higher-quality song first. I will discuss how the musical subgenres of songs on a single should be selected in the music genre popularity section. The factors affecting single sales are: * Song quality * Recording quality * Balance of the popularity–fame difference * City fame * Market shares * Single release timing (28-day interval) This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Song Market URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/song-market Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/song-market.md Apart from writing our songs and covering, another option is buying and using songs that others have put up for sale through the song market. You can access these lists through Artist > Song Market > Songs. Generally, most songs offered for sale consist of songs that family members write and sell among themselves to support each other. You can post an advertisement on the forum to have songs written for you, or ask your friends if you have them. Market songs are not indispensable. A purchased song of 24–24 quality is equivalent to your own song of approximately 21–22 or 22–22 quality. In other words, if you can write your own songs and build your repertoire from them, you will not miss market songs in terms of quality. You can make videos for hit songs you buy from the market and use them as the first song of your single. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Stadiums URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stadiums Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stadiums.md Unlike bars, the audience upper limit in stadiums is 35,000. Attracting this many spectators to a stadium is difficult even for the most famous bands, so do not be sad if you cannot achieve full capacity. However, there is a consequence to this. The fewer tickets you sell in stadiums, the more negatively your concert will be affected. Therefore, if you cannot exceed the threshold of selling 20,000 tickets, the total of two bar concerts, a stadium concert may do you more harm than good. Ticket prices and your average city fame also affect your ticket sales, with fame in that city having the greatest effect. A low ticket price does not directly increase your ticket sales; it only increases their speed. Its indirect effect is that you sell more tickets from a high level before your city fame starts to decline. The contribution of stadium concerts to your career is providing a large popularity increase depending on the number of spectators. While you can gain 4–5% popularity by giving two bar concerts for 10,000 people per day, a stadium concert for 30,000 people brings 6–7%. You should arrange your stadium concerts as the first concert of the day; otherwise, as the second concert of the day, you cannot get the efficiency you expect from the popularity increase. My advice is to arrange your stadium concerts as the only concert of the day. You can arrange at most 10 stadium concerts within one Popmundo year. In other words, you can arrange a total of 20 stadium concerts consecutively in the last ten days of year 100 and the first ten days of year 101. This is of great importance for the Big Bang competition, which takes place on the ninth day of the year. I will discuss the use of stadiums in the competitions section. We will touch on each other in a triangle. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Stage Equipment URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stage-equipment Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stage-equipment.md Everything from speakers used on stage to lighting and other systems is generally called stage equipment. Its effect on a concert is around 10% or 1–1.5 levels, which is quite a high effect. My advice is to somehow get 5\* equipment even if you are at the beginning of your career. There are a few factors affecting the score your equipment receives on stage. The power capacity of the venue where you perform must be higher than your equipment’s; otherwise, you cannot benefit from all of it and receive an incomplete score. You should have your stage equipment repaired at certain intervals. This can be every 3–4 days or as long as two weeks. You need to check from time to time. Finally, your crew’s mood, the roadies’ and lighting technicians’ mood, and the drivers’ handlebar mustaches also affect the rating your equipment receives. An example 5\* equipment list. A total of 90,800 W is enough to receive 5\* from equipment: | Quantity | Equipment | | -------- | -------------------------------- | | 1 | Stroboscope 800 W | | 10 | Speaker 2000 W | | 4 | Subwoofer 2000 W | | 2 | Thunder Stormer 4000 W | | 2 | Bubble Machine 250 W | | 2 | Foam Machine 2000 W | | 1 | Backdrop with Band Logo – Giant | | 5 | Supersize Rack 7500 W | | 1 | Projector | | 1 | Plasma Screen | | 2 | Smoke Machine 500 W | | 1 | Advanced Lighting Control System | | 1 | Deluxe Sound Mixing Desk | | 4 | Large Monitor Speaker | This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Stage Plan Strategies URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stage-plan-strategies Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stage-plan-strategies.md You have probably realized that the way to give a high-quality concert is to prepare a good stage plan. If you are inexperienced, I recommend opening the best concerts section in the rankings and following the concerts of bands near the top there. You can learn many things about stage plans. If you say, “No, we insist on doing it ourselves. We are ignorant, we came from a cave, we are going to make a stage plan,” come on in, you are in the right place. For your concert to succeed, there must be at least 11 songs in your plan. You can also play 12 or 13 songs. Playing 14 or more songs has no benefit, and you will also use your valuable songs for nothing. To keep the audience from getting bored, we should support the songs we arrange in the plan with tricks. You should add a number of tricks equal to the number of songs played, plus/minus 3. For example, a number between 7 and 14 if you are playing 11 songs. If your songs receive fewer stars than your tricks, which is generally the case at the beginning of a tour, there can be more tricks than songs in the plan. Similarly, as the star value the songs receive increases, you should reduce the number of tricks in the plan. Arranging too many songs or tricks consecutively when creating a plan causes the audience to get bored and your concert score to drop. You must not arrange more than 6 songs or tricks consecutively. If you examine the plan in sections of 11 actions, your plan will also fail if you arrange songs or tricks beyond an 8–3 ratio. For example, a section of your concert could be: 1. Song 2. Song 3. Trick 4. Song 5. Song 6. Song 7. Song 8. Song 9. Trick 10. Song 11. Trick All general tricks benefit from the Basic Showmanship skill. For example, the sea of fire trick, which requires Basic Leadership, should be considered as basic showmanship + basic leadership when calculated. Also, every trick requires an attribute, and your score in this attribute must also be high. Tricks requiring health and mood benefit from the levels of these attributes but do not lower them. Similar to general tricks, genre tricks also benefit from the skill of that music genre. Like the blues skill for tricks of the blues genre. We can make the following ranking in terms of trick value: Own Genre Tricks > General Tricks > Other Genre Tricks For this reason, your priority on stage should be using tricks belonging to your own genre. Then general tricks, and if those are unavailable, other genre tricks. There are 3 tricks I want to discuss separately from the others: Awesome opening: The stars it receives change depending on your ambition level. It receives 5\* in boosted performances. It should be used in the first 3–4 positions of the stage plan. Leave the stage: To play an encore (yes, I will touch on that too), we need to perform this trick beforehand. It receives the value of whatever mood the audience is in at that moment, and it is not taken into account when calculating the average stage score at the end of the concert. Shout a message: It requires no skill and receives stars corresponding to whatever the audience enjoyment is at that moment. In a normal plan, the audience’s enjoyment is at the very end of the concert. Therefore, you can add it to the very end of the plan. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Stage Roles URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stage-roles Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/stage-roles.md Regardless of how many people your artist consists of, everyone who will make music must choose 2 stage roles. Both of these roles can be playing an instrument, or one can be playing an instrument and the other dancing. However, there is an important point here: to get full efficiency on stage, everyone’s primary role must be playing an instrument. Below is an example of role choices for a four-person band: | Primary role | Secondary role | | -------------- | ------------------ | | Lead Vocals | Dancer | | Lead Vocals | Electric Guitarist | | Drummer | Dancer | | Bass Guitarist | Backing Vocals | Having the same primary or secondary stage roles does not create a conflict or problem. I will explain how dominant instruments should be used in songs in the song section. What we need to know is that everyone’s first role on stage must be playing an instrument. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Television Shows URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/television-shows Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/television-shows.md Another element affecting your market shares is television shows. Alongside your market share, they also contribute somewhat to the popularity of your latest existing song with a video and to your personal fame. Invitations are sent 2 to 4 weeks before your concerts, from television stations near the bars where you give concerts. Concerts selling very few tickets may not be taken into account by television stations. Although invitations are sent in accordance with your tour plan, many invitations will also come at the same time as your concert, in a different city, or in ways you cannot make it to. You should choose and accept those you can attend without making your schedule difficult. You cannot have more than four accepted or not-yet-accepted television show invitations at the same time, so do not forget to reject invitations that do not interest you. Invitations you do not answer will disappear within a week. Television shows generally last one hour, but can sometimes last a little longer. Make sure you do not accept television show invitations that overlap with other activities you have planned. I am leaving a detailed study of television shows here, recommending that you read it: 2267921.1 This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Tour Vehicle URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/tour-vehicle Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/tour-vehicle.md Tour vehicles are economical vehicles that get you and your stage equipment to the city for the concerts you will give. Also, if you do not have a tour vehicle, you cannot acquire stage equipment. In a sense, stage equipment is an inseparable part of the tour vehicle. Compared to other alternatives, traveling with a tour vehicle is more valuable for preserving your health. There are two types of tour vehicles you can acquire. Land tour vehicles: there are 9 vehicles with different capacities and speeds that you can see in the tour vehicle section on your career page. Air tour vehicles: there are 3 different vehicles according to speed and capacity that you can buy with credits. Your tour vehicle ages over time and needs maintenance, just like stage equipment. You can see your vehicle’s condition and have it repaired from the tour vehicle page. If you do not have maintenance done for a long time, you can break down on the road. Jet vehicles bought with credits do not break down, but we repair them too. The point is to spend money. If you will buy a land vehicle, you should definitely prefer one large enough to fit 5\* equipment. The Double-Decker Bus and Luxury Double-Decker Bus are two vehicles that meet this criterion. Jets bought with credits fit 5\* equipment. You can also store your personal belongings in the remaining capacity, so you are not separated from your belongings during the tour. My advice, if you have access to credits, is to buy a Bowing 666 Private Jet. Its carrying capacity is the same as the largest land vehicles, but it is approximately 7–8 times faster than them. If you leave just before the beginning of the hour when departing a city with your tour vehicle, you save approximately 1 hour. For example, if you leave for a 2-hour journey at 13:54, you can arrive at 14:45. If you leave for a 2-hour journey at 14:05, you arrive at your destination at 15:45. ## Automatic Vehicle Movement [#automatic-vehicle-movement] When you activate this option, your tour vehicle will automatically move to the city of your next concert. As long as you leave enough time between two concerts, you do not need to worry about following your concerts. However, while moving automatically, your tour vehicle will move focused only on making it to your concerts, without taking your rehearsals, recordings, and TV shows into account. Therefore, you need to keep one eye on your plan. If you are a VIP member, you can deactivate the automatic movement option. When the tour vehicle moves, band members who have chosen to move with the vehicle and, if any, children under 16 following those members also move with the tour vehicle. You can access detailed information about automatic tour vehicle movement through Artist > Tour Vehicle. At the very bottom of the Artist > Schedule page, there is a section for manually setting the tour vehicle in motion and scheduling it. In tight situations, you can deactivate your tour vehicle’s automatic movement and make a schedule here, or use it by sending it on its way yourself. My advice is to use automatic tour movement in its active state. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # Tour URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/tour Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/tour.md A tour is, in short, the name for concerts given consecutively in an organized way. Of course, if you want to succeed, you should have a solid tour plan. You can create this plan yourself by arranging cities one after another, or you can join ready-made tour plans, which you can find in the general forums and company forums and on which many bands travel together. Like my band’s tour, for example :p There are a few things you need to pay attention to when preparing a tour or joining one. A Popmundo year lasts 56 days. Visiting the existing 49 cities within this period is necessary for the development of your fame. We can say that touring with two concerts in a city has become standard. Therefore, you can arrange a tour plan by giving two concerts in the same city as an evening concert–morning concert, without them being on the same day. Like this: | Date | Time | City | | ---------- | ----- | --------- | | 06.09.2019 | 12:00 | Brussels | | 06.09.2019 | 22:00 | Amsterdam | | 07.09.2019 | 12:00 | Amsterdam | Continuing in this way. The average of every concert you give within 56 days is taken and affects your city fame. For this reason, if there are no very big differences between concert levels, there is no point in giving a concert in that city more than once or twice a year. There is another number you need to pay attention to, like 56: 42. If there are fewer than 42 days between the concert/concerts you arrange in the same city, you may experience problems with ticket sales. If your city fame is enough to give two concerts for 10,000 people, arranging two concerts will not be a problem. This time, the third and fourth concerts must not fall within the 42-day period. Also, starting 42 days after the last concert, downward movements in that city’s fame accelerate; city fame starts to decline. This decline accelerates greatly after 56 days. Finally, let us discuss the concept of an accelerated tour. Here, with an evening concert–morning concert arrangement, every consecutive concert is in a different city. With a good sequence, you can finish a world tour in as little as 25 days. Its benefit is that, if you are just starting your career, by giving concerts in all cities you can start the process necessary for city fame to rise and sell somewhat more tickets for your upcoming tours. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet. # WiW URL: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/wiw Markdown: https://popmundo-mcp.berkbirkan.com/en/music/wiw.md WiW, the abbreviation of the English name Who is Winning?, is the highest point that progress in an artist’s career can reach. What is meant by winning here is not financial gain, but the number of records sold, concert levels, radio charts, and fame levels. In short, WiW is a list where the currently best bands in Popmundo appear. If you are a VIP member, you can view the factors affecting your WiW ranking and also your ranking in your music genre through Artist > Ranking Details. These details are as follows: Fame: This score is determined by your current global fame. It is the average of the artist’s city fame. Concerts: This is the score received according to the global ranking position of the best concert you have given in the past 56 days, that is, within one Popmundo year. Albums: This score is determined according to the total sales of the albums you have released within the last three game years. More precisely, it is where these sales figures rank compared to the sales made by other bands. Single: This score is determined according to the total sales of the singles you have released within the last two game years. Just like albums, the single sales figures here are also compared with sales made by other bands, and your score is determined according to your ranking. Radio: This score is determined according to the highest position you currently occupy in the radio charts. What you need to do to climb to the top of the WiW list is maximize the above factors at the same time. For an artist who regularly releases albums, album sales from the last 3 years reach their maximum level in the eighth week of their albums. If you can adjust your single and radio chart situation accordingly, entering the list becomes inevitable. This guide was prepared and shared by Derin Akmehmet.