Audience expectations are now less focused on your local fame in the city you're playing in. The level of audience expectation is now determined by your past & present local fame, your current global fame, as well as the reviews of recent shows regardless of which cities you played them in.

For most of you this increases the level of audience expectation slightly. Thus making encores a bit harder to pull off.

The encores themselves have also been tweaked so they're calculated a bit more like regular songs. It's still possible to play golden oldies successfully but in most cases a current hit song will score higher.

These changes were made to eliminate questionable tactics in important competitions as well as remove unfair advantages for old has-beens over new & upcoming stars.