A New Artist Has 11 Songs in the iTunes Top 100... And He's Not Even Real - Hits 96

A New Artist Has 11 Songs in the iTunes Top 100... And He's Not Even Real - Hits 96

Photo by Xu Haiwei on Unsplash An artist named Eddie Dalton has 11 songs on the iTunes Top 100, including two in the Top 10.  He also has the #3 album.  One of his songs, “Another Day Old“, has 1.4 million views on YouTube. Not bad for a guy who doesn’t even exist. Eddie Dalton is the creation of Dallas Little, and everything from the music to his look are A.I.-generated. But don’t accuse Little of deceiving people or ripping them off.  He says,…

Eddie Dalton Hit Number One On iTunes But He Doesn't Actually Exist

Eddie Dalton is a gray-haired, soulful blues singer with 1.4 million YouTube views, 230,000 Facebook followers, three songs simultaneously in the iTunes top 10, an album sitting at number three on the iTunes Top Albums chart, and a number one single in both the United States and the United Kingdom. He is also entirely fictional. Every element of him, his voice, his face, his persona, his music, was generated by artificial intelligence. There is …