AI Music News Today | What You Need to Know

Nashville is hosting a 6-day music competition where you write, produce, and perform a song from scratch — with or without AI — here’s how to enter:

Competitors have six days to write, produce, and perform an original song live in Nashville, with 4 tracks matching different skill levels and AI workflows.

13. February 2026

Deadmau5 performing at Rock in Rio Madrid 2012 with iconic mouse head helmet and LED stage setup.

“Scary as fuck”: Deadmau5 finds AI-generated video of himself promoting a stranger’s music

An unnamed DJ created a convincing AI video of Deadmau5 promoting their music, exposing how deepfakes now target celebrity endorsements instead of just stealing songs.

13. February 2026

How Spotify Is using AI to reinvent itself as music streaming growth stalls.

I read Spotify’s entire Q4 2025 earnings report, so you don’t have to. These 5 findings matter most:

Spotify paid $11 billion to creators in 2025, but here’s what the earnings report reveals about who actually benefits from its AI tools.

12. February 2026

CLEAR Act infographic explaining AI copyright reporting requirements and mechanism.

The CLEAR Act would force AI companies to reveal every copyrighted work they trained on, or face $5,000 fines per song:

Senators just introduced a bill forcing AI companies to publicly list every copyrighted work in their training data or face steep fines and potential shutdowns.

12. February 2026

Megan Thee Stallion with platinum blonde hair speaking into Hennessy-branded microphone at event.

Megan Thee Stallion goes Olympic while YouTube locks AI playlists behind paywalls. Here’s what it means for artists.

Megan Thee Stallion becomes an Olympic broadcaster while YouTube’s AI playlists reduce most artists to anonymous background music. Here’s the widening divide.

11. February 2026

Chance the Rapper performing at Red Rocks, wearing signature '3' cap, holding microphone on stage.

Chance The Rapper just became the face of AI infrastructure. Here’s why fans are furious:

Chance The Rapper is now the face of CoreWeave, a $47 billion AI infrastructure company. Fans see it as a betrayal of his independent artist roots.

9. February 2026

Spotify’s new policy roadmap targets AI slop and fake artists. Here’s what changes for your music:

Spotify’s cracking down on fake artists and AI-generated soundalikes by demanding stricter metadata standards across the industry, reshaping how your music gets tracked and paid.

9. February 2026

Top 5 AI Music News Feb 2-8, 2026 with ElevenLabs representative.

Top 5 AI Music News Of The Week (Feb 2nd – Feb 8th 2026)

Roli launches an AI piano coach using hand tracking, ElevenLabs raises $500 million at $11 billion valuation, and Apple acquires Q.ai for $1.6 billion. Here’s what creators need to know.

8. February 2026

Suno’s music chief says AI tools need to stay open, not locked behind paywalls. Here’s what you need to know:

Suno’s music chief argues AI tools should work like open studios, letting creators export and distribute their work instead of trapping it behind platform walls.

4. February 2026

Romel Murphy in navy suit smiling, he's the manager of AI artist Xania Monet and just signed a multi-million dollar deal.

Xania Monet’s manager just signed a multi-million-dollar deal with a $1 billion music company, here’s why songwriters should care:

Songwriters can now own AI-powered artists outright while keeping master and publishing rights—a shift that changes who profits when AI hits the charts.

4. February 2026