Final week, Fortnite Pageant had its first-ever week during which just one new jam monitor hit the store, which despatched Pageant gamers right into a tizzy over the likelihood that Epic is winding down help for the mode like the corporate did final yr with Rocket Racing. On Tuesday, Epic lent some credibility to these considerations by as soon as once more asserting just one new jam monitor for the week.
This week’s new monitor is a minimum of a well-known one, Previous City Street (Remix) by Lil Nas X that includes Billy Ray Cyrus–one of the most important hits of the twenty first Century. Final week’s lone monitor, against this, was the EDM monitor Slay! by Eternxlkz. Sometimes, Pageant has had three or extra songs every week because it launched in December 2023, and so devoted followers have been extraordinarily anxious about what this modification in process means–there’s a variety of despair going round on the Festival Reddit, the place the highest six threads are at present about this. See here and here and here.
That is simply the latest regarding piece of reports for Pageant followers this yr. Earlier than this yr, all Fortnite Pageant jam tracks have been within the store on the similar time, which means you could possibly purchase any music at any time–but throughout this previous spring, Epic eliminated a lot of the tracks from the store and shifted them to a FOMO-driven mannequin like all the pieces else within the merchandise store, the place the obtainable tracks rotate recurrently and solely stick round for just a few days at a time.
Regardless of all that, Fortnite Pageant did simply deliver out Bruno Mars as its new seasonal headliner with ABC by the Jackson 5 on the Music Move, and most Epic staff are off work on the corporate’s summer time break. Maybe the scenario will change later within the month.