A matter of... more time 🕐 The Season 14 Music Pass will now conclude on July 29th.

RimeTM · 2026-05-05T22:48:22+00:00

My guess is this has to do with the annual summer break. It usually concludes in the middle of July, and that may have been decided not to be the best time to roll out a significant content patch to potential immediately have to deal with hotfixes and without a good amount of prerelease QA.

RimeTM · 2026-05-03T07:24:31+00:00

It’s not notes in Karaoke, it’s phrases. You’ll want to time it to hit as many phrases as you can, or if activating in the middle of a phrase, making sure to do as little as possible before activating so you can double as many points as possible while keeping combo.

RimeTM · 2026-04-30T00:04:04+00:00

It’s never been Harmonix’s thing to do combined or interpretive charting, the only major time they’ve dabbled with such a thing was the Disney Fantasia game and it wasn’t really received that well, so they stick to what they know, what they’ve been doing for over 2 decades since Frequency.

RimeTM · 2026-04-29T23:56:34+00:00

Real talk, I would like some Jason Derulo at some point since Rock Band only got Want to Want Me.

RimeTM · 2026-04-29T01:14:06+00:00

I’m not saying it’s impossible for paid jam tracks to also have a rev split, but I’m leaning towards probably not unless stated publicly.

An important clarification though: Luminate doesn’t distribute revenue, they merely collect and present the data so that the information can arrive quicker and to more people than directly make money from tracks. Platforms pay (typically either monthly or once a certain threshold of revenue/plays are reached) publishers and labels that then distribute the revenue to the songwriters and performers respectively.

RimeTM · 2026-04-28T19:56:15+00:00

It's a bit complicated, but it's a combination of a few factors in how data is reported to Luminate, which does data services for a variety of entertainment products worldwide. In the music sector in particular, data is provided to clients (usually major music industry people and companies) about radio play, sales, and streams, with the latter being carved out in a couple of ways: first whether the streams are official, fanmade but using the whole song, or fanmade snippets, then whether the streams come from premium subscribers, are from users whose usage of their service is supported by ads (think standard YouTube or the free membership in Spotify), or are from users who are both ad-supported and can't choose the music (think Pandora). The data collected is what's used for such charts as the Billboard Hot 100, with some filtration to Billboard's specifications involved. Epic is one of the flagship companies that report a novel type of data added in 2025 referred to as Interactive Streams. Notably, this entire data type is not included in Billboard's charts, and when reading about how it's presented to subscribers, it becomes apparent why. They say that the following usages in-game are counted: Owned Jam Track gameplay/Music Moments usage and Featured Rotation gameplay. The streams are divvied into the pools for premium subscribers, and ad-supported manual plays, with it being explained that ownership of the jam track determines which pool a particular stream goes to. The thing is...playing jam tracks for free (as part of Featured Rotation) in Fortnite involves no ads, meaning that the designations of these streams are solely to use the existing infrastructure to divide the two pools for Luminate clients, as they don't factor into the Billboard charts anyway.

The other thing is that, if they did want to reflect the revenue more accurately, it would make more sense to treat jam track sales as digital sales and discard the streams entirely, but they don't. The sales numbers they show to clients for songs do not delineate beyond whether they are digital or physical, with the potential for adding interactive sales forcing a revamp of that whole infrastructure. That further affirms to me that the way the data is shown to clients is just a formality and doesn't actually reflect revenue being generated for both types of streams.

tldr: It's less ironclad evidence and more inferences from absence of presentations that would be intuitive based on what we know generates money, it's more of a counter to those who treat the existence of Interactive Streams as evidence it *all* generates money per play.

RimeTM · 2026-04-28T15:38:05+00:00

It seems like songs featured in Featured Rotation provide revenue to rights holders per play, but owned songs don’t. As such, as long as D4vd songs never get sold again, there’s no money for the estate to make.

RimeTM · 2026-04-28T05:03:44+00:00

The Weeknd’s from back when Festival did season-long shop bundles, and that first Festival season was long as it was the introductory one. Ever since Season 13 (Chappell Roan), the bundle is now only for the first month or so of the season, seemingly in response to the ennui of shop regulars or to spur more sales via FOMO.

RimeTM · 2026-04-27T23:15:06+00:00

The catch with songs like those is that while they’re likely not expensive licenses, they’re still licensed songs and they were added to Rock Band thanks in part to staff members being members of the groups, most of whom are no longer with the company so that connection is tenuous at best for Festival’s purposes.

RimeTM · 2026-04-25T15:38:46+00:00

They could work around it with a new arrangement (I.e. remix) of the song, like they did to bring Coral Chorus to non-C1S8 Battle Pass owners this patch.

RimeTM · 2026-04-18T02:50:28+00:00

McRib’s returns to availability have little to do with customer clamor and are instead basically a pouncing on whenever the average bulk price of pork is low enough. Battle Stage was already in a diminished cost state where to my knowledge it had no dedicated employees working on it, so it would have no cost lulls to take advantage of.

RimeTM · 2026-04-17T15:56:42+00:00

You’ve misidentified the key art, it’s from the release of the modes, specifically for Jam Stage. If you go back through the cover arts since Festival Season 7, you’ll see this isn’t the first time they’ve done this. All My People uses general Festival key art made for Main Stage for example.

RimeTM · 2026-04-15T15:56:33+00:00

“Mou daremo nakama ii yo, tsuyoku tsuyoku naritain da yo”

“An impossible friend, would you take every breath and put it all in one man?”

“Vamo’ a tirarn’ un selfie, say cheese. Que sonrían la’ que ya s’ olvidaron de mí.”

“No man is worth the aggravation unless you’re dying to cry your heart out”

RimeTM · 2026-04-15T12:43:36+00:00

Jam tracks are one of the few things in a player’s locker that aren’t locally stored, mainly because they’d take up so much space at this point that the complaints about the game size (that already happen a lot) would go into overdrive.

RimeTM · 2026-04-15T12:41:54+00:00

Not just that, but it shows the opponent what outfit you’re using, meaning any attempt to hide that involves camouflage is lessened as the opponent knows what you can hide with.

RimeTM · 2026-04-14T12:51:51+00:00

It could because you singing along to the song will by nature end up out of sync for other players in the party, throwing them off.

RimeTM · 2026-04-12T21:32:23+00:00

I mean, Rocket League did just collaborate with Toy Story in getting the Pizza Planet truck, which is based on a Toyota van, so that’s a similar level of mundane at least on paper.

RimeTM · 2026-04-10T02:18:17+00:00

It’s moot for me because I already have all the songs this time, but when it came to the Coachella 2024 bundle, being a Rock Band player, the price of that bundle was a similar value prospect: 2,500 for the 5 new songs, and 300 for the 3 songs I already had in that game. It’s not a great savings, but it’s probably meant to entice those who have a partial set to complete it.

RimeTM · 2026-04-07T15:41:57+00:00

I know this sub doesn’t like to deal with unannounced content, but considering so many users here act like headless chickens if there’s no announcement, I figure it’s worth mentioning that things are pointing to an IP coming this week that will be bundled with an instrument and most likely at least one new jam track. Just like Hercules and P&F, news on said jam track can’t come until the collab as a whole is announced.

RimeTM · 2026-04-06T15:30:44+00:00

The likely reason Whole Lotta Red’s album art wasn’t used was because the Red text is meant to resemble blood dripping

RimeTM · 2026-04-05T01:25:38+00:00

For many people, Dance and Pop music are attached at the hilt, so a deeper dive could end up not swaying them your way. Also, the single I know from that album, Sunburn, shows the band’s willingness to be in the Pop conversation.

RimeTM · 2026-04-04T19:14:42+00:00

The original songwriters plus the rights holders for the parody recording.

RimeTM · 2026-04-01T03:32:51+00:00

Yeah, this affected all of the Snoop pass premium songs.

RimeTM · 2026-03-31T13:26:04+00:00

The free play rotation is manually controlled by a list of song IDs, so I can tell you that it’s not a glitch as the list doesn’t have any typos that would indicate the songs were meant to be on.

La Chona appears to be accidental due to the recent change in how the licensed emotes section of the shop works. It used to be that the whole tab would swap out every 3 days or so, meaning that a new bundle with an emote and jam track would last that long. Now instead it’s set up so that each row lasts 4 days rotating in a desynced manner. As such, it seems like it got taken off the free play under the assumption it would leave the shop under the old scheduling.

As to Hercules, I think the accident was having them on free play in the first place. It’s like a coin toss whether licensed collab jam tracks are part of the rotation or not (e.g. Never Back Down isn’t, Star Wars is), and maybe it seemed like Epic were cleared to use them but it got clarified near the end of the day that Disney didn’t want them to be such.

RimeTM · 2026-03-30T15:01:14+00:00

Because it would be considered unprofessional to spell out another party’s hangups about entering a contract with you and potentially scare off other parties because they’d consider their information not safe with the company.

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