{"id":228528,"date":"2025-04-08T11:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?p=228528"},"modified":"2025-04-08T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:40:35","slug":"sabrina-carpenter-named-icon-for-fortnite-festival-season-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/sabrina-carpenter-named-icon-for-fortnite-festival-season-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabrina Carpenter named \u2018icon\u2019 for Fortnite Festival Season 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Popstar and two-time Grammy winner Sabrina Carpenter has been announced<\/a> as the \u201cicon\u201d for Epic Games\u2019 Fortnite Festival<\/em> Season 8.<\/p>\n

The season kicks off Tuesday (April 8). Players will be able to unlock Carpenter\u2019s Juno <\/i>and Nonsense <\/i>Jam Tracks via the Season 8 Music Pass and access more of her tracks in the Shop.<\/p>\n

Carpenter joins other artists who have been featured as \u201cicons\u201d on Fortnite<\/em> including The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish <\/b>and Metallica<\/b><\/a>. The Sabrina Carpenter x Fortnite integration arrives as the artist enjoys breakthrough success, including her recent Grammy wins<\/a> and string of chart-topping singles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Espresso, <\/i>from Carpenter\u2019s 2024 album Short n\u2019 Sweet,<\/em> won the Best Pop Solo Performance award at the recent Grammys. The track has so far exceeded 2 billion <\/b>streams<\/a> on Spotify<\/strong>. Please Please Please, <\/i>another song from the album, has so far amassed 1.4 billion <\/b>streams<\/a> on Spotify.<\/p>\n

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Players can access Sabrina Carpenter-themed content across Fortnite<\/em>. The Season 8 Music Pass, priced at 1,400 V-Bucks<\/a>, unlocks her Juno <\/i>and Nonsense <\/i>tracks, along with a Sabrina Carpenter Outfit featuring a yellow babydoll costume inspired by her recent tour wardrobe. Epic collaborated with Victoria’s Secret<\/b>, celebrity stylist Jared Ellner<\/b>, and jewelry brand Maison Raksha<\/b> on the digital recreation.<\/p>\n

For fans, additional Carpenter content is available in the Fortnite Shop, including a separate “Tour-Ready Sabrina Carpenter” outfit with multiple styles and \u201cEmotes\u201d choreographed to her songs Taste <\/i>and Please Please Please.<\/i><\/p>\n

A Sabrina Carpenter-inspired SC Electric Guitar is also unlockable in the Pass and fans can unlock its red Blush Style, or another sparkly SC Guitar as a premium reward.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Sabrina Carpenter integration, Season 8 introduces several other features to Fortnite Festival<\/em>. Players can now layer up to four loops simultaneously when jamming with friends. Epic said it has also refined the audio-visual setup and added support for multiple audio setup profiles.<\/p>\n

Another new social feature allows players to perform alongside bandmates based on outfits from their favorites list.<\/p>\n

For content creators, Epic is offering a seven-day window at the start of Season 8 to monetize videos featuring eligible Sabrina Carpenter songs, provided their YouTube<\/strong> and Support-A-Creator<\/strong> accounts are linked. After that, Epic said, \u201cNo takedown notifications should occur during or after the seven days.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2023, Epic Games announced<\/a>\u00a0that creators of eligible Fortnite \u201cislands\u201d and experiences will receive a share of revenue based on engagement with their published content. Under Fortnite\u2019s new\u00a0Creator Economy 2.0<\/b> program, Epic will place\u00a040%<\/b>\u00a0of the net revenue from Fortnite<\/em>\u2019s Item Shop and related real-money purchases into the engagement pool.<\/p>\n

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Fortnite<\/em> has been banking on artists to grow its user base. As MBW<\/em> explained in a 2018 article<\/a>, the online game provides new ways for music fans to engage and support their favorite artists.<\/p>\n

In December 2024, Fortnite<\/em> drew 14.3 million <\/b><\/a>concurrent players for its \u2018Remix: The Finale\u2019 virtual concert, which featured performances by Snoop Dogg, Ice Spice, Eminem<\/b>, and a posthumous tribute to Juice<\/b> WRLD<\/b>. The attendance surpassed the previous record of 12.3 million<\/a> <\/b>concurrent players for a Travis Scott <\/b>concert in 2020.<\/p>\n

It also surpassed the records set by the\u00a0Snoop Dogg & Ice Spice at Times Square<\/a>\u00a0event last year, the\u00a0Big Bang<\/b>\u00a0event featuring Eminem<\/strong> concert in 2023 and the\u00a0Doctor Doom\u00a0<\/b>fight in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carpenter joins other artists who have been featured as \u201cicons\u201d on Fortnite including The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and Metallica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":228544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[124252,5301,132983],"class_list":["post-228528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite","tag-sabrina-carpenter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}