Encore

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.