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- 17 Oct
AI Music News 17 OctDuke researchers found 9 undisclosed AI artists on Spotify, all through Release Radar
- 5 Duke Sanford researchers listened to Spotify for 28 days on new genre-trained accounts and heard 728 artists.
- Deezer's AI tags confirmed 9 of the 64 unfamiliar artists the team could check, and Spotify's Release Radar served all 9.
- None of the 9 disclosed AI use, and the team's own checklist of public clues matched Deezer only about 14% of the time.
- 17 Oct
AI Music News 17 OctGoldman Sachs says AI could add 10% to recorded music revenue by 2035, and warns AI tracks could dilute the royalty pool
- Goldman Sachs published the 10th edition of its Music in the Air report on October 15, 2026.
- Goldman estimates AI licensing, creation tools and new products could add about 10% to recorded music revenue by 2035.
- Its base case puts yearly AI music revenue for rights holders at $3.3 billion in 2035, with a bear case of $904 million and a bull case of $6.6 billion.
- 17 Oct
AI Music News 17 OctKid Rock used Suno for the choir arrangements and some orchestrations on Halfway 2 Jesus
- Kid Rock's faith-based album Halfway 2 Jesus came out on October 17, 2026.
- Billboard reported that Kid Rock used Suno mostly for full choir arrangements and some orchestrations.
- The rest was recorded at his Dixie Ridge Studios in Nashville with session musicians and Twisted Brown Trucker band members.
- 17 Oct
AI Music News 17 OctMeomuru's "The Adult I Dreamed Of" hits No. 3 on Melon's Top 100 with a Suno-generated vocal
- Meomuru's "The Adult I Dreamed Of" reached No. 3 on Melon's Top 100 on October 14, 2026, behind songs by Soyeon and Rescene.
- Meomuru wrote the lyrics and directed the production, and the vocal was generated with Suno, which makes the track AI-assisted rather than fully AI-generated.
- The song came out on June 23, 2026 and spread as background music in short-form videos before topping YouTube's daily music video chart in South Korea on September 2.
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- 17 Oct
AI Music News 17 OctUniversal and Sony ask a court to force DistroKid to reveal how many AI songs it uploads
- Universal Music Group, Capitol Records and Sony Music asked a Manhattan federal court on October 14, 2026 to force DistroKid to comply with a subpoena from their Suno case.
- Their proposed order asks DistroKid to report by October 30 how many tracks its third-party AI prediction model scored as likely AI-generated each month, and what those tracks earned.
- The labels say DistroKid delivered nearly 12 million tracks to one unnamed major streaming service between March and September 2026, more than all other distributors combined.
- 16 Oct
AI Music News 16 OctA$AP Rocky says AI is a tool for pulling Kanye's vocals off 'Good Morning', and a prompt-only song is 'their thing'
- A$AP Rocky gave his take on AI in music to Complex's Antonio Johri in an interview published on October 14, 2026.
- His example of AI as a tool is splitting the stems of Kanye West's 'Good Morning' to take the vocals off and rap on the instrumental.
- On fully AI-generated songs made from a prompt, Rocky said 'I think that that's their thing' and asked who he is to say what's standard.
- 16 Oct
AI Music News 16 OctTIME names Deezer's AI music detector a Best Invention of 2026, after it kept 42 million AI tracks out of recommendations
- TIME named Deezer's AI music detection tool to its list of the Best Inventions of 2026 on October 15, 2026, one of 300 inventions judged on originality, efficacy, ambition and impact.
- Deezer says it detected and removed more than 42 million AI-generated tracks from its algorithmic and editorial recommendations between January 2025 and August 2026.
- Deezer now receives nearly 90,000 fully AI-generated tracks a day, up from roughly 10,000 a day when the detector went live in January 2025.
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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
Frequently asked questions
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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How do AI music tools compare to traditional music production software?
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