Rising Star Journal - January 2026 Check In - Charge Forth In The Year of The Horse

Greetings everyone, we are halfway into the first month of 2026, hope all of you are doing fine so far. As we step into 2026, it is time to set some targets to achieve for this year and also see how far we have grown since 2024 which I still had records on.

Current Game Stats
Before we look into the various situations that needed me to manage and work on for my account, let's see the current stats. This gives a full view of how things are and how we progressed through the year of 2025.

Stat	End 2024	End 2025	Jan'26
Fans	85414	114704	117184
Skill	188428	242273	257868
Luck	25007	36174	37722
Income	1864	2199	2220

Over the past 2 years, we are now in the region of 100k fans which I think I need to accelerate a little to maybe get into the 500k region, though initially this series is to push towards 1 million. But let's take this a step at a time and not setup something not realistic.

My unique card count current stands at 700.

The sources for me to get cards are as below:
For specific card purchase:

For bulk purchases and unique cards:

So in view of this situation, I would like to set a mid year check point of moving towards 250k fans. I am not sure how, but I will work towards it.

The Need For More StarPro
And in this journey of building up more fans, there will always be one tough hurdle. Ego explosion. This is when we clear missions that build up ego and also time to time drunk fans come over and make our earning significantly reduced. So the only way we should go about for this is to ensure we also get things balanced from music lessons.

And to run music lessons, we need StarPro. And StarPro price is always on the rise as seen from the screenshot below.

So while we want push for growth, a portion of that needs to be committed to also getting StarPro, which now have quite a fair bit of utility and thus the price of it keeps going up.

I think this method really helps to manage token prices and not allow people to grow out of control and upset the token market.

Song Intro
Like with my previous post, I want to share a song that share with the community that had been popping up in my playlist.

This song is the theme song of a very nice drama serial called Queen of News 2. The first series had another amazing song and now this new theme song adds on to the mood of the drama. I love how the melody and lyrics tie in so well. Ever since the drama was aired, this song had received many good feedback and have recently won best drama theme song together with the drama itself.

Let me know in the comments if you like the song or have a song to recommend me to listen to.

Trading Offers
Calling out to other players whom are not collecting guitar, if you have guitars that you want to trade, do let me know in the comments if you have any guitar to trade. I will have plenty of other instruments ready to trade.

After thoughts
We are off to a start of the year in 2026 and this being the year of the horse, let's continue charging forth, growing asset and at the same time enjoy amazing music which is available within the game.

See you in my next update and let's all wish for a good year ahead!

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