US EditionAI-generated music is going viral. Should the music industry be worried?
- The Velvet Sundown is a synthetic music project that has over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify.
- Major record labels, including Sony Music, Universal Music Group, and Warner Records, have sued Suno and Udio for mass copyright infringement.
- Tino Gagliardi of the American Federation Of Musicians called for support for human creativity and authorship in music.
- Keith Mullin, head of management and music industry course leader at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, stated that the rise of AI music has caused a stir in the music industry.
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Velvet Sundown's star has not faded, on the contrary, it shines even brighter. Its popularity is still growing, and the fact that the band is not made up of humans, but of artificial intelligence (AI), has not changed that. The number of followers is increasing by hundreds of thousands of listeners every week.
The three albums produced in less than a month by the fake musicians have watered more than one million pairs of ears on Spotify: an all-out music, a mirror of a passive audience.
The band The Velvet Sundown sounds like a rock band from the seventies – but their songs were apparently completely generated with AI. Within a few days, the group released three albums that are streamed a hundred thousand times. Is this the future of the music industry?
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