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- 14 Sept
AI Music News 14 SeptIFPI asks the EU to make AI companies disclose every song they trained on
- IFPI launched its Music in the EU 2026 report at a Brussels event on September 10, 2026.
- CEO Victoria Oakley called for the absolute and uncompromising implementation and enforcement of the AI Act's transparency and labelling rules.
- The report asks the European Commission to add a mandatory second tier to the AI Act transparency template, releasing detailed training records to rightsholders on request.
- 14 Sept
AI Music News 14 Sept27 music companies signed IFPI's anti-fraud pledge. DistroKid and TuneCore didn't.
- IFPI launched the Streaming Integrity Initiative on September 14, 2026 with 27 companies signed on.
- Participating distributors commit to 5 practices, including Know Your Customer identity checks and vetting uploads for AI-related risks.
- DistroKid, Believe and its TuneCore platform, SoundOn and UnitedMasters are all absent from the launch list.
- 14 Sept
AI Music News 14 SeptRoger Taylor says a Queen avatar show is 'a possibility', but he won't tour with a virtual Freddie
- Roger Taylor raised the idea of a Queen avatar show on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Virgin Radio on September 10, 2026.
- Asked directly whether Queen would tour with a digital Freddie Mercury, Taylor answered no and said he wished it was.
- Taylor named ABBA Voyage as the reference point, saying technology has come on so far.
- 14 Sept
Tool News & Updates 14 SeptElevenLabs launches Music v2.5, and says the UMG deal had nothing to do with it
- ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 on September 14, 2026, four days after announcing a multi-year licensing deal with Universal Music Group.
- The company added a note to its own announcement stating that the UMG agreement is separate from Music v2.5.
- ElevenLabs says v2.5 beat Music v2 in a blind test across 47,885 paired takes, with the widest gap in vocal-led and acoustic-heavy genres.
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- 14 Sept
Music Intelligence 14 SeptSpotify says it paid Busta Rhymes over $1m last year. He says streaming still doesn't work.
- Busta Rhymes told the Power Players with Brian Sozzi podcast that the industry has not worked out how to pay artists from streaming.
- A Spotify spokesperson replied that the company paid out more than $1m in 2025 for streams of his catalogue.
- Spotify pays rights holders from a shared pool rather than paying artists directly, so a payout figure and an artist complaint can both be accurate.
- 11 Sept
AI Music News 11 SeptKeyBanc puts a number on Spotify's AI music plans: about 2% more revenue per listener
- KeyBanc reiterated its Overweight rating on Spotify with a $680 price target on September 10, 2026.
- The firm estimates AI music features could add about 2% to Spotify's average revenue per user within 12 to 18 months.
- KeyBanc says that number could rise faster if superfan tiers get adopted.
- 11 Sept
AI Music News 11 SeptNordic Digital Music Survey 2026: 77% want AI music labelled, and 12% have already made some
- 77% of Nordic listeners say AI-generated music should be clearly labelled on streaming services and radio, up from 58% in 2024.
- 77% say composers and songwriters should decide whether their music trains AI services, and 74% say they should be paid for it.
- 12% of people surveyed have used AI tools such as Suno or Udio to make music themselves.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
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I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
Today the site is read by 20,000 music professionals every month — Grammy-winning engineers, artists, and people inside Warner Music, AWAL, Believe, Songtradr, and UnitedMasters.
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Frequently asked
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What is AI music and how does it work?
My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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