As we edge into the final months of 2024, BitLife is still going strong on both iOS and Android platforms as arguably the be-all and end-all of life simulator games. Six years removed from its release, it keeps drawing in new players, while existing ones have a reason to go back to the game at least once a week.
That reason, of course, is the weekly challenge feature, where players get to complete a series of requirements based on whatever theme Candywriter thinks of. While normally these are limited-time events, you can always revisit uncompleted challenges if you have the Challenge Vault enabled for a onetime fee.
This week’s challenge draws inspiration from one of pop music’s hottest young talents in Chappell Roan, as well as her status as “your favorite artist’s favorite artist.” In the Your Favorite Artist Challenge, you’ll be tasked to replicate some of Roan’s career milestones (but not all of them) in the BitLife universe, and just like most other musician-inspired challenges, this one won’t always be easy to complete.
But even if it is easier than most others of its kind, some parts may be tougher to navigate than others, and that’s where this week’s BitLife mini-strategy guide comes in. Keep reading if you need some help running through the Your Favorite Artist Challenge, as we’ve got everything you need to know for all five requirements.
Start Your Musical Training While Young
The first requirement of the Your Favorite Artist Challenge, as usual, is the simplest — be a female born in Missouri, just like Chappell Roan. Currently, there are two Missouri cities available in the game (Kansas City and St. Louis), so either one will do. Definitely choose Music as a Special Talent, and start taking musical lessons as early as possible — that would be 6 years old for instruments, 8 years old for voice lessons.
Once you reach the age of 18 and graduate from high school, you can start trying out for one of BitLife’s fictional record labels. Up to now, you still cannot choose your preferred genre, but thankfully, you don’t need to specifically be a pop star just like the challenge’s inspiration. You will, however, want to avoid more niche genres such as Worship or Metal and aim for more commercially viable ones such as the aforementioned Pop, Rock, R&B, or Country.
On the down side, having a 100 percent Skill bar in your chosen instrument doesn’t absolutely remove the chance of bad auditions. You may need to try a few times and do some quitting and restarting as the labels give you the Simon Cowell treatment with some humorous (yet brutal) putdowns of your talent, or as they see it, lack thereof. Also, you can feel free to play any instrument you wish or join a band if being a solo singer doesn’t quite float your boat.
It Still Takes Patience to Go Viral
As Roan is one of the many performers in the current musical landscape to earn popularity or added popularity thanks to social media virality, you will need to go through the BitLife ringer once again and go for that viral success on the social media platform of your choice.
And as anyone who’s completed challenges with this as one of the requirements can attest to, this can sometimes be frustrating. We often say that there doesn’t seem to be a “secret sauce” that could ensure a viral video in the BitLife universe, but then again, that is often the case in the real world, where virality can be completely random.
With that in mind, your best bets are still Instagram and TikTok over other platforms, while challenges, dance videos, and yes, random videos have higher chances than most others of going viral. You should likewise keep avoiding political posts as their controversial nature may lose you some followers, as well as family pictures or anything that might come about as too mundane to cause your follower count to explode.
Completing the Challenge’s LGBTQ Requirements
Next up are the LGBTQ-themed requirements — making at least three LGBTQ friends and coming out as bisexual. The first one’s pretty simple and straightforward — keep a close eye on your classmates’ BitLife profiles and befriend anyone who identifies as Gay or Bisexual.
You may need to complement them to boost your Relationship bar to a point where it’s well into green territory, but be warned that there may be rare instances where classmates won’t want to befriend you even if your Relationship bar is all full.
If you aren’t able to make three LGBTQ friends before graduating high school, you may want to consider attending college or taking on a full-time job for a year or two — both are good ways to complete this requirement, though you also don’t want to wait too long as record labels, quite sadly, don’t look too kindly toward new musicians over the age of 25.
As for coming out as bisexual, you can do this regardless of your character’s actual sexual orientation, so you can tick this off quite easily well before working on what is usually the last task to complete in the Your Favorite Artist Challenge.
Singles Released on Your Old Label Can Still Complete the Final Requirement
The final requirement in the Your Favorite Artist Challenge is that you receive a Gold certification for one of your singles after you switch labels. On one end, this is much easier than how it was in previous musician-based BitLife challenges — all you have to do here is to receive Gold certification, not Platinum, and definitely not Double Platinum. But given the randomness of success for musicians in the BitLife universe, it might take some time for you to get your first Gold single.
Not to worry, though — there’s a bit of a twist to this particular requirement, and that’s the fact that singles you recorded for your previous label can be certified Gold a few years after the fact. So if your first single for your new label is a flop but at least one of the singles you released for the old one did well enough to reach Gold status a couple of years after its release, you’ll still get credit for the requirement. And, assuming you’ve completed all the other tasks, that should do it for the Your Favorite Artist Challenge and allow you to open a prize chest for a new hat or eyewear.