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- 17 Oct
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.
- 17 Oct
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
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
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.
- 16 Oct
16 OctRIAA's 2026 Notorious Markets filing flags AI voice site Lalals for Taylor Swift and Drake voices made without consent
- The RIAA flagged Lalals, an AI voice site run by Lalals FZ-LLC in the United Arab Emirates, in its submission to USTR's 2026 Notorious Markets review, filed October 7, 2026.
- The filing says Lalals lets users make a vocal sound like Taylor Swift, Drake, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars and other artists without their consent or authorization.
- The same section flags Anna's Archive, which announced in December 2025 that it had downloaded 86 million music files from Spotify.
- 15 Oct
15 OctMarsha Blackburn posts an AI video of herself performing 'Not Like Us', 13 days after her NO FAKES Act push
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn's campaign account posted a 12-second AI video on October 13, 2026 that recreates Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX show with her at the microphone.
- The clip passed 2.1 million views on X within 2 days, and many replies called it "AI slop".
- Blackburn said on October 14 that a county commissioner made the video, and called it "a funsies".
- 15 Oct
15 OctTaylor Swift files to trademark her voice in the UK, EU and Australia, and Australia accepted it in 6 days
- Taylor Swift's company, TAS Rights Management, filed 5 new trademark applications in the UK, the EU and Australia in October 2026.
- The UK, EU and Australian sound marks cover Swift saying "Hey, it's Taylor Swift", and the UK and EU filings add a stage photo.
- IP Australia accepted the Australian sound mark on October 12, 2026, 6 days after it was filed.
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- 15 Oct
15 OctYouTube Music now labels AI-generated songs, using your distributor's tag or its own detection
- YouTube Music started rolling out labels on October 14, 2026 for songs created primarily using generative AI.
- The label sits on the player page, and tapping it opens a menu that explains how the track was made.
- Distributors and labels can tag each track as Fully Gen AI, Partly Gen AI or No Gen AI when they deliver it.
- 14 Oct
14 OctGrimes' 'Accelerando' video used AI-generated elements alongside a 70-person crew, her team confirms
- Grimes' 'Accelerando' music video includes some AI-generated elements, her representative confirmed to Business Insider on October 13, 2026.
- Her spokesperson said more than 70 people made the video over 2 to 3 months, with AI as a supplementary tool in the VFX pipeline.
- The video's credits list at least 3 'AI artists', and no AI was used to record the song or its vocals.
- 14 Oct
14 OctJamendo refiles its AI-training lawsuit against Nvidia days after dropping the first, still seeking €17.8M
- Jamendo filed a new copyright lawsuit against Nvidia in California federal court on October 12, 2026, case number 5:26-cv-11754.
- The new case came days after Jamendo voluntarily dismissed the near-identical suit it filed on June 22, 2026.
- Jamendo still claims Nvidia trained its Fugatto and Audio Flamingo models on the MTG-Jamendo dataset, which is licensed for non-commercial research only.
- 14 Oct
14 OctFather Paolo Benanti, Pope Leo's AI adviser, warns Australia's AI copyright changes risk a 'new form of colonialism'
- Father Paolo Benanti, AI adviser to Pope Leo XIV, told ABC's 7.30 on October 14, 2026 that AI copyright changes risk a 'new form of colonialism' in Australia.
- He said foreign AI companies could train on Australian work and take the money and the tax revenue overseas.
- The ABC reported in September that the Attorney-General's department was consulting on letting AI train on copyrighted work unless owners opt out.
- 14 Oct
14 OctRaye says AI bots flooded her Royal Albert Hall presale, with 1.8M sign-ups for 5,000 seats
- Raye's presale for her one-off Royal Albert Hall show drew 1.8 million sign-ups for 5,000 seats, she said on October 13, 2026.
- Raye says scalpers used AI bots to create 'hundreds of thousands' of fake registrations on the co:brand sign-up page.
- Her team reviewed the list by hand and sent presale codes only to people it believed were real fans.