Songs in The Sims 4: How to Write Them, Make Money, and Get Famous

Floricity

Editor

posted on 10 months ago — updated on 1 second ago

6
views

Do you want to make your Sim a famous musician? Or perhaps you want to have them write a song in their spare time? You may have noticed that writing a song in the Sims can be a little hard to figure out, but in this guide, we'll teach you exactly how to do it. Keep reading to learn about songwriting requirements, how to make money with the songs you write, and how to get famous as a songwriter in the Sims 4.

Things You Should Know

With the Sims 4 base game, you can write songs on guitar, piano, or violin, & license them to make money.
With Get Famous, you can use the music production table to make music you can sell to radio stations in hopes you'll get signed by a label.
You must be skill level 8 in your instrument to write songs and skill level 9 to license songs, except the music mixing table from Get Famous.

Writing Songs

Buy an instrument. The first thing you'll need is an instrument to write songs. The base game comes with three instruments: guitar, piano, and violin. However, there are some more instruments available if you have certain expansions: City Living - Singing Vampires - Pipe Organ Get Together - DJ Booth Get Famous - Media Production

Level up your instrument skill to 8. The ability to write songs doesn't appear until you've nearly mastered your instrument. Keep practicing and performing with your instrument to raise your instrument skill. If your sim has the Muser trait from the creativity aspiration, becoming Inspired will give them a 40% boost to skill gains. Media production only has five levels, as it is a minor skill. As soon as you have one skill point in media production, you should be able to mix music at the Mixmaster Music Station.

Click on your instrument and select Write Song. A few genres will pop up, and more will become available as you raise your skill level. If you're using the microphone, the option will be called Write Lyrics. On the DJ booth, it'll be called Write Mixtape. For media production, you can select Produce Music when you click on the mixing table.

Select a genre. Your Sim will immediately begin composing a song. It takes about 12 in-game hours to write a song, so make sure your Sim's needs are well taken care of before you begin writing. If you have to stop in the middle of writing a song, you can resume by selecting the sheet music in your inventory and clicking the Resume menu option.

Finish composing the song. Once you have composed a song, you can play it at any time by clicking on the instrument and selecting the Play option.

Making Money by Writing Songs

Reach level 9 of your instrument skill. You can write songs at level 8, but to start licensing your music, you need to be level 9.

Click on your Sim's mailbox. Several options should show up.

Select License Song. The instruments you've used to write songs will show up.

Click on an instrument in the menu and select a song to license. You will get royalty payments for one week, starting at 10 a.m. the day after you mail the song. You can only have one licensed song per instrument at a time. To maximize your payout, you can release songs for multiple instruments every week as long as you've got them to skill level 9. Royalty payments will be between $200 and $800.

Getting Famous by Writing Songs

Level up your media production skill to 5. You'll need the Get Famous expansion to have the Fame system, and to get famous with your songs you'll need to level up your media production skill. You can start making music at the mixing table once you have a single skill point in media production, but maxing the skill out gives you access to all of the genres and effects.

Produce a song at the mixing table.

Click on the mixing table and select Release Track. Releasing a track gives you an instant fame boost and provides you with a daily income. You can only release songs once per day.

Keep releasing music until a label contacts you. If a label likes your music enough, they will offer to sign you. If you accept the offer, you will get a boost in fame and income, but you must release a track every three to four days or your label will drop you.

Writing Songs Faster

Open up the cheat console. You can use [[Open-the-Cheat-Window-on-the-Sims|cheats}} to instantly increase your skill level so you don't have to spend time doing it yourself. How you do this varies by platform: PC: Ctrl+⇧ Shift+C Mac: ⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+C Console: Press R1+R2+L1+L2 at the same time

Type in testingcheats true and hit enter.

Open the console again and type stats.set_skill_level Major_(skill) (skill level). Replace (skill) with the skill name and (skill level) with the desired skill level. For example, to reach level 10 of the guitar skill, you'd write stats.set_skill_level Major_Guitar 10. There are no cheats for writing songs faster. If you want to decrease the amount of time it takes to write a song, you'll have to install a mod to do so. Only download mods from websites and people you trust.