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- 21 Oct
21 OctDaisy the Great say an ADHD app is running ads with a fake AI version of 'The Record Player Song'
- Daisy the Great said on Instagram on October 20, 2026 that an app is promoting itself with an AI-generated version of "The Record Player Song".
- The band says the copy keeps the same melody with "slightly changed lyrics" and has been circulating for months.
- The ads promote ADHD Vision, an app that pitches 8D audio as a way to calm people with ADHD.
- 21 Oct
21 OctSpotify took 50 million AI slop and spam tracks out of recommendations in 2026, on top of 75 million it removed
- Spotify said on October 20, 2026 that it has taken more than 50 million slop and spam tracks out of its recommendations this year.
- A separate 75 million-plus "spammy tracks" were removed from Spotify altogether for serious or repeated rule violations.
- Tracks Spotify rates as likely AI-generated are 10 times more likely to fall below its 1,000-stream royalty threshold.
- 21 Oct
21 OctTod Machover's AI symphony 'already and not yet' premieres with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 22, 2026
- Tod Machover's new symphony "already and not yet" has its world premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on October 22, 2026.
- Kent Nagano conducts 3 performances at Boston's Symphony Hall from October 22 to 24.
- A "Live AI" system built at the MIT Media Lab responds to the orchestra in real time and feeds extra loudspeakers in the hall.
- 20 Oct
20 OctICMP warns Australia that Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave songs are already in AI training data
- The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) told Guardian Australia on October 19, 2026 that AI has already been trained on songs by Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave without payment.
- ICMP showed Google's Gemini reproducing lyrics by Kylie Minogue, G-Flip and Nick Cave.
- ICMP director general John Phelan said 62 countries considered changing copyright law for AI, and none of the other 61 adopted a commercial text and data mining exception.
- 20 Oct
20 OctK.K. Downing, 74, defends the AI video that recreates his younger self for KK's Priest's 'Never Satisfied'
- KK's Priest released a video for a new recording of Judas Priest's 1974 song 'Never Satisfied' on October 15, 2026, sung by Tim 'Ripper' Owens.
- Director John Psaras of JPSR Studio used AI to recreate a young K.K. Downing, and Downing, 74, is credited as executive producer.
- Downing said the video 'could not have been made without today's modern technology.'
- 20 Oct
20 OctMusixmatch buys Songdex owner Music Reports in its first acquisition in 16 years, and plans AI royalty agents
- Musixmatch announced on October 19, 2026 that it has acquired Music Reports, the Los Angeles company behind the Songdex copyright registry, its first acquisition in 16 years.
- Blokur, the London rights-matching company Music Reports bought in January 2024, and Music Reports' Cuetrak cue sheet software come with the deal.
- Financial terms were not disclosed, and Tikehau Capital financed the transaction.
- 20 Oct
20 OctFans called Olivia Rodrigo's 'expectations' video AI, so her team posted the hand-drawn drafts
- Olivia Rodrigo released the 'expectations' video with Chappell Roan on October 15, 2026, and viewers flagged its animated segment as AI over shifting fingers and limbs.
- Designer Jack Harrison and Livies HQ, Rodrigo's official fan account, posted behind-the-scenes footage of hand-drawn characters, 2D and 3D animation and analog TV screens.
- Rolling Stone reports the team filmed the animation off a Windows Vista PC screen with a hi-res camera to get its retro look.
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- 20 Oct
20 OctIndian label Raagverse launches with Janaa Hai Toh Jao, 3 songs pairing human lyrics with AI production
- Raagverse, a new Indian music label that pairs human songwriting with AI production tools, released its debut album Janaa Hai Toh Jao on October 20, 2026.
- The album has 3 songs, the title track, "Koi Keh De Usse" and "Tere Liye", all with lyrics by Mamta Javkar.
- Raagverse comes from Amita Madhvani, CEO of Equinox Virtual, the AI and immersive arm of Equinox Films and Ram Madhvani Films.
- 20 Oct
20 OctUniversal and Sony ask a court to make Suno investor Lightspeed testify on the legal risk of training data
- Universal Music Group, Capitol Records and Sony Music asked a Boston federal court on October 13, 2026 to deny Lightspeed Venture Partners' motion to quash their subpoena in the Suno case.
- Lightspeed led Suno's $125 million Series B in May 2024, holds a seat on Suno's board and invested again in the Series C and Series D rounds.
- The labels' narrowed subpoena lists 16 deposition topics, including the "legal risk of training data" discussed in a document Lightspeed already produced.
- 17 Oct
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
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
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.