MIS
Music Industry Simulator
Build 0.1 · Independent Career Mode
Start with nothing but time, ideas and bills
Make music.
Build your career.
Build a career.
You need £500 a week to live. Work a job, write songs, make records, rehearse, play gigs and build an audience. Every hour has a cost. Every decision changes what happens next.
£500
Weekly costs
168h
In every week
1
Career to build
Independent Chart
This Week
Week 38
UK
UK
01
▲
Slow Motion
Paper Cinema
02
NEW
Outside Looking In
VELA
03
▼
Low Signal
Neon Static
04
▲
Afterimage
Glass Harbour
Your debut entered at #87.
Friday · 8PM
Your first
support slot
support slot
120 cap · £75 guarantee
Travel required
Travel required
The week is the game
What are you doing this week?
Forty hours at work is safe. Forty hours at work plus thirty hours making music might not be. Choose what matters, spend your hours, and live with what follows.
Plan
Week 12 · April 2027
£742
Cash
Day job40h
Finish Untitled 048h
Rehearse live set4h
Promote Low Signal3h
Total workload
55h
Tiring
Energy
71 → 61
−10
Burnout
18 → 22
+4
A career takes time
Small decisions become a story.
WEEK 04
Finish your first track
Turn hours of writing, rehearsal or studio work into actual material.
WEEK 11
Release it
Master it, package it, distribute it and decide how much time to spend promoting it.
WEEK 27
Something starts happening
Streams, gigs, followers and opportunities begin to change the decisions you make.
Music Industry Simulator
How far can you take it?