AI slop tops Billboard and Spotify charts as synthetic music spreads
6 days ago
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- Three AI-generated songs topped music charts this week, including 'Walk My Walk' and 'Livin’ on Borrowed Time' by Breaking Rust, and a Dutch anti-migrant anthem 'We Say No, No, No to an Asylum Center'.
- The Dutch song was later removed from Spotify and YouTube, with rights holders cited as the reason, not Spotify itself.
- AI-generated music is rapidly growing, with 50,000 AI songs uploaded daily to Deezer, making up 34% of all submissions.
- AI music quality has improved significantly, with 97% of surveyed listeners unable to distinguish AI from human-made music.
- Distribution services like DistroKid enable easy uploading of AI music to platforms like Spotify and YouTube, bypassing traditional labels.