Music Industry AI News

AI music news: Stay up to date on how AI is changing the music world. We cover the latest news on record labels, streaming platforms, and how artists and creators are using AI. Find out what’s new and what it means for you.

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

Spotify now controls 30% of global music revenue and just said they will crack down on AI. Here’s why it matters for your royalties:

Spotify’s AI crackdown targets streaming fraud, protecting artists’ royalties by implementing robust verification systems against low-quality, algorithmically generated content.

29. January 2026

Deezer app showing AI-generated content warning label on album with neon musical notes artwork.

Deezer detects 60,000 AI tracks daily and they are now licensing its detection tool to help others:

Deezer’s AI music detection reveals a staggering crisis: 60,000 daily AI tracks flood platforms, with 85% of streams originating from fraudulent bot networks.

29. January 2026

AI music now has its own “Billboard charts”. SIQA launches first Top 100 AI songs this Friday. Here’s why the industry will never be the same:

SIQA debuts the word’s first official AI music charts with the Top 100 AI songs and Top 100 AI cover songs. Here’s what you need to know:

28. January 2026

AI artist Sienna Rose is stealing videos from other TikTok creators. Here's proof:

AI artist Sienna Rose with 4 million monthly listeners now uses deepfake videos stolen from real creators to fake a human identity

Sienna Rose’s 4 million listeners don’t know she’s stealing real creators’ videos and using deepfakes to fake being human. Here’s how the deception unraveled.

28. January 2026

Spotify interface showing Prompted Playlists features connecting user to AI music engine with sound waves.

7 ways Spotify’s Prompted Playlists are changing how you discover music in 2026

Spotify’s Prompted Playlists uses AI to generate personalized music recommendations from natural language descriptions, your listening history, and real-time cultural trends.

27. January 2026

Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno, wearing headphones. Here are the Top 5 AI Music News for January 19-25, 2026

Top 5 AI music news of the week (19th – 25th January 2026)

Suno’s CEO says everybody uses AI music but nobody admits it. Plus Splice, BeatStars, Audiotool, and ElevenLabs make major moves. Here’s what happened this week in AI music..

25. January 2026

The Beatstars and Lemonaide AI team sitting together smiling in an office with windows overlooking buildings.

BeatStars acquires Lemonaide AI to build creator-owned AI music ecosystem with built-in consent and payouts.

This acquisition merges AI music creation with creator rights, ensuring producers maintain ownership and earn payouts when their likenesses train the models.

22. January 2026

Splice acquires Kits AI to bring ethical voice cloning to 7 million music creators.

Splice just acquired Kits AI, bringing ethical voice cloning to millions of creators while ensuring artists get compensated for their work.

22. January 2026

Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno, wearing headphones speaks into Shure microphone during podcast recording.

Suno CEO compares AI music to Ozempic: “Everybody is on it and nobody wants to talk about it”

Musicians privately use AI music tools but won’t admit it publicly, says Suno’s CEO, revealing the industry’s uncomfortable truth about what’s becoming music’s next format.

20. January 2026