Play Rock Manager
Record Contract

The record labels have different musical focuses and it is important to find one to suit your band and song. The labels form an opinion of the song's quality and style plus the band's quality and style. The better this matches the labels preferences, the better the chance that they will offer a contract and the better the terms.
   Click Play demo to let them hear your song. If the label like what they hear, they will offer a contract, and if they don't like it they will tell you why.











Contract proposal
A contract proposal has two sections, advance and royalty.
  Advance
How much money the label is prepared to pay in advance of future royalty. This sum will be paid to you if you accept the contract, but will have to be repaid (recouped) in full with your royalty on the record sales before any royalty is paid to you. This means that a big advance is a lot of cash in your pocket but takes long to repay. If you cancel the contract in a later stage, you will be liable to pay back the remainder of the advance. You can decrease the advance to get a higher royalty and opposite. Click the arrows to the right of the box.

Royalty
What share of the sales receipts per copy goes to you. You can decrease the royalty to get a higher advance and opposite. Click the arrows to the right of the box.
Click OK to accept the contract offer (it can not be changed once accepted) or Cancel to decline and return to the city.


Record company

When you have a record deal, the options in the Record Label view change. Now there are the following options:
  Cancel contract
Cancel the record contract. You will be liable to repay the advance. If you don't have enough money, they will take all they can get their hands on.

Play New Demo
If you record a new song, the label must approve it before it can be released. You will not get any new advances for new records.

Survey
Click here to see the labels market research. This option is not active before the record is released.


Survey

The labels research what audience groups would like to buy the record. Here the three audience groups in which the record has the most possible buyers are displayed. Use surveys to decide how to plan your marketing.
  Target group
Indicates which audience group is interested in the record.

Pie Chart
Indicates the proportion of members of the audience group who would be interested in buying the record.

Age
Indicates the age of the members of the audience group. This matters for instance in the case of concerts with a minimum age.

Size
Indicates how many individuals belong to the audience group. This figure is the largest number of records that can be sold to this audience group.
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