How any of this works.

How Chart Topper works, one system at a time: writing songs, the charts, touring, labels and the radio. No spreadsheets, no homework.

Songwriting

What your cards do when you turn them into a track.

Three stats earn money three different ways. A fourth multiplies all of them.

Your equipment. Both kinds run out, in different ways.

Why owning more cards is not the same as being better.

The steadiest money, and the one place your back catalog still counts.

Why your song slipped, and what it takes to stay up there.

Five careers that all work. Pick the one that sounds like you.

Start a crew, share a clubhouse, and win as a family.

What happens when a stranger hears your song.

Every song in the station was written by somebody who learned all this and then wrote one anyway.