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- 13 Nov
13 NovMeomuru's "The Adult I Dreamed Of" is the first song with an AI vocal to reach No. 1 on Melon's Top 100
- Meomuru's "The Adult I Dreamed Of" reached No. 1 on Melon's Top 100 at 5pm KST on November 13, 2026, the first time a song with an AI vocal has topped the chart.
- It passed Rescene's "With", which dropped to No. 2, about 5 months after the song's June 23 release.
- Meomuru is an AI artist project from Glorywave, the producing duo of Lee Yong-seok and Choi Seong-hyeok, who write the lyrics and use Suno for the melody, arrangement and vocal.
- 13 Nov
13 NovNVIDIA's NVentures asks a court to block Universal and Sony's Suno subpoena, saying it already handed over 6,324 documents
- NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, filed a motion in San Francisco federal court on November 10, 2026 to quash Universal and Sony's deposition subpoena in their Suno lawsuit.
- NVentures says it already produced 6,324 documents totaling 28,194 pages, and that it was only a minority investor in Suno's November 2025 Series C with no board, observer or advisory role.
- Universal and Sony still want testimony on 10 of their original 13 topics, including NVentures' communications with Suno about the risk of litigation over its training data.
- 13 Nov
13 NovReservoir adds 318 songs to its Suno lawsuit and 290 lyrics to its Anthropic case, lifting its claim to $445.7 million
- Reservoir filed First Amended Complaints against Suno and Anthropic on November 11, 2026, 3 weeks after its original October 21 filings.
- The Suno case now covers 1,368 compositions, up from 1,050, and the Anthropic case covers the lyrics of 1,143, up from 853.
- At up to $177,500 per work, the maximum statutory demand rises to $242.8 million against Suno and $202.9 million against Anthropic, $445.7 million in total.
- 13 Nov
13 NovSuno CEO Mikey Shulman says "AI music is not a crime," and that fixing streaming fraud takes 4 parties in one room
- Suno CEO Mikey Shulman said "AI music is not a crime" on the Trapital podcast with Dan Runcie, in an episode published November 12, 2026.
- Shulman called streaming fraud a crime he is "vehemently opposed" to, and said treating it as the same thing as AI music is a "sleight of hand."
- He said fixing fraud needs AI companies, rights holders, distributors and streaming services working together, and that with all 4 in a room it is "a pretty easy technological problem."
- 10 Nov
10 NovJerry Heil wants AI songs banned from Ukrainian radio, citing Australia, where the ban covers charts, not radio
- Ukrainian singer Jerry Heil asked on November 9, 2026 for a legal ban on AI-generated songs in Ukrainian radio rotation.
- In a Telegram post, she said stations fill airtime with generated tracks so they don't have to pay artists.
- She named Australia as the model, but Australia's ban, in force since August 28, 2026, covers the ARIA charts, not what radio plays.
- 10 Nov
10 NovNick Cave calls Suno 'the Great Cancellator' in Red Hand Files #381, and says song generators 'mock creation itself'
- Nick Cave published Issue #381 of The Red Hand Files on November 9, 2026, answering one fan on separating art from the artist and another on AI.
- He called Suno "the Great Cancellator" and wrote that it "produces an imitation of the soul – a song – in fifteen seconds flat".
- Cave wrote that song generators "mock creation itself by rendering humanity unnecessary".
- 10 Nov
10 NovSpotify subscribers threaten to cancel over the AI remix tool, and no announcement says if backing musicians get paid
- Spotify subscribers on X and Reddit say they'll cancel if the AI covers and remixes tool launches, Mashable reported on November 8, 2026.
- The Future of Music Coalition posted on November 7 that the key issues are consent, credit and compensation, and asked how the money works.
- Digital Music News reported the group also asked whether backing musicians get paid for this new use, which no Spotify announcement addresses.
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- 09 Nov
09 NovAustralian composers say firms are pushing musicians to re-record AI songs so they can copyright them
- Composers Antony Partos and Nigel Westlake told The Australian Financial Review on November 8, 2026, that ad agencies ask composers to recreate AI-generated tracks so their clients can secure copyright.
- Partos wants a licence set up through Australia's collecting societies that pays composers retrospectively for AI training that has already happened.
- Partos says his company Sonar Music turns these jobs down and has lost work, because the composer who copies the track carries the liability.
- 09 Nov
09 NovARIA poll finds 78% of Australians want AI companies to keep asking permission before training on creative work
- A RedBridge Group poll of 1,524 Australians, released by ARIA on October 26, 2026, found 78% want AI companies to keep needing permission to use Australian creative work.
- Only 9% would change the law to drop the permission requirement, and no age, gender, income or education group fell below 65% support for keeping it.
- 74% say creators should decide whether their work trains AI models, and so do 82% of the people who support AI training in Australia.
- 09 Nov
09 NovBedroom Producers Blog poll: 2,096 readers want AI music tools covered, but not software that generates songs
- Bedroom Producers Blog published the results of its AI in music software poll on November 9, 2026, with 2,096 responses and 762 comments.
- 72% of readers gave a hard no to tools that generate finished music from a text prompt, and only 5% said they were fine with them.
- A professional developer using AI to write code faster was the most accepted use, with 52% fine by me and 25% depends.
- 09 Nov
09 NovIFPI chief warns Australia not to be the AI copyright 'weakest link', because one safe harbour exposes music everywhere
- IFPI chief executive Victoria Oakley told Guardian Australia on November 8, 2026 that weakening copyright for AI companies would be a "disaster for creativity".
- Oakley said Australia should not be "the weakest link" that accepts AI company demands other countries have rejected.
- She warned that an AI company only needs one safe harbour to train on music from anywhere in the world.
- 09 Nov
09 NovTuned Plugins launches Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 at $9.99 with a 'F*CK AI SLOP' campaign against AI-made plugins
- Tuned Plugins put its Vocal Essentials Bundle V2 on sale for $9.99 for 72 hours on November 9, 2026.
- The bundle holds Vocal Tune V2, Vocal Chain V2, Tuned Reverb V2 and Smooth Sibilance V2 for macOS and Windows.
- Tuned runs the sale as its "F*CK AI SLOP" campaign against what it calls rushed, AI-generated plugins.
- 09 Nov
09 NovU2's The Edge says AI couldn't write a U2 song, but it can write country because it's 'very strictly codified'
- U2 guitarist The Edge told Zane Lowe he tried AI music programs to see if they could come up with a U2 song, and they couldn't.
- He said the same programs could write a country song, because country is 'very strictly codified'.
- The interview was filmed at Mount Temple, U2's old school in Dublin, and posted on U2's YouTube channel on October 29, 2026.
- 08 Nov
08 NovDr. Dre tells Ice Cube only uncreative people will be mad about AI, on the first episode of Listen & Laugh
- Dr. Dre was the first guest on Listen & Laugh, the podcast Ice Cube hosts with Mike Epps, which went up on YouTube on November 6, 2026.
- Dre said he is 'extremely excited' about AI and that the only people who will be mad about it are 'the people who aren't that creative'.
- He pitched a future where an artist gets paid for an AI version of their image and voice, and gets to approve what it does.
- 08 Nov
08 NovElvis Presley Enterprises sues Suno over voice cloning under the ELVIS Act, as Eminem's publisher seeks $41 million
- Elvis Presley Enterprises and its co-plaintiffs sued Suno on November 6, 2026 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, case 3:26-cv-13398.
- The complaint is one of the first major tests of Tennessee's ELVIS Act, which can hold the company behind a voice-cloning tool liable, not only the person using it.
- It lists 859 songs, for up to $152.5 million in statutory damages, plus ELVIS Act damages the plaintiffs believe exceed $50 million.
- 08 Nov
08 NovIvors Composer Awards return on November 17, and Ivors CEO Roberto Neri calls generative AI “a major issue”
- The Ivors Academy relaunches the Ivors Composer Awards on November 17, 2026, at Grosvenor House in London.
- 36 composers and librettists are nominated across 9 categories, from film and TV scores to video games and community work.
- Ivors Academy CEO Roberto Neri told The Big Issue that generative AI is 'a major issue' and that using creators' work without permission is 'not acceptable'.
- 08 Nov
08 NovMachine Gun Kelly says anyone who brings AI around him is fired, after a fan asked him to keep it off his music and merch
- In late October 2026, a fan asked Machine Gun Kelly on X never to use AI in his music, album covers or merch.
- On November 5, he quote-posted the request with a 9-word reply: anyone who brings AI around him is fired.
- The post had 4,655 likes and 144 replies by November 8, 2026.
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