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Popstar and two-time Grammy winner Sabrina Carpenter has been named the “icon” for Epic Games’ Fortnite Festival Season 8. The season kicks off on April 8, with players able to unlock Carpenter’s Juno and Nonsense Jam Tracks via the Season 8 Music Pass and access more of her tracks in the Shop. Carpenter joins other artists featured as “icons” on Fortnite, including The Weeknd, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, and Metallica.
The Season 8 Music Pass, priced at 1,400 V-Bucks, unlocks Carpenter’s Juno and Nonsense tracks, along with a Sabrina Carpenter Outfit featuring a yellow babydoll costume inspired by her recent tour wardrobe. Additional Carpenter content is available in the Fortnite Shop, including a separate “Tour-Ready Sabrina Carpenter” outfit with multiple styles and “Emotes” choreographed to her songs Taste and Please Please Please. 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.
Season 8 introduces several other features to Fortnite Festival, such as allowing players to layer up to four loops simultaneously when jamming with friends, refined audio-visual setup, and a new social feature allowing players to perform alongside bandmates based on outfits from their favorites list. Epic Games offers a seven-day window for content creators to monetize videos featuring eligible Sabrina Carpenter songs, provided their YouTube and Support-A-Creator accounts are linked.
In 2023, Epic Games announced that creators of eligible Fortnite “islands” and experiences will receive a share of revenue based on engagement with their published content. Under Fortnite’s new Creator Economy 2.0 program, 40% of the net revenue from Fortnite’s Item Shop and related real-money purchases will be placed into the engagement pool.
