Music4 Sep 2026
Stella Parton asks fans to stop posting AI fakes after Dolly Parton's death
Dolly Parton's sister says a flood of AI-made posts since the singer's death has made the family's grief harder, and asks for compassion.
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Music4 Sep 2026
Suno pulls a Mary J. Blige ad after learning the deal behind it was never authorised
Suno dropped a video ad that seemed to show Mary J. Blige praising an AI song after it emerged the person who agreed it had no authority to do so.
Music2 Sep 2026
Halifax music venue Gus' Pub stops accepting AI-generated show posters
The Halifax pub now swaps AI-made gig posters for a plain template, a stand that local artists say has already brought back design work.
Music22 Aug 2026
Bette Midler calls Suno-made hit 'Celebrate Me' cultural genocide, and Tyrese Gibson pushes back
Midler says the AI singer IngaRose's chart hit was built from uncredited human voices; Tyrese Gibson defends the song in her comments.
Music20 Aug 2026
Nepali singers and labels push back as AI covers of their songs spread on YouTube and TikTok
Singers and a label owner say AI-altered copies of their songs are being renamed and sold online, and want Nepal's 2002 copyright law updated for voice cloning.
Music18 Aug 2026
SubmitHub study flags nearly 40% of July music releases as made with AI
SubmitHub's detector marked 23.2% of July releases as fully AI-made and 15.3% as edited AI audio, though many flagged artists denied using it.
Music12 Aug 2026
D'Addario admits Suno was used on a string demo after repeatedly denying AI
After several denials, D'Addario confirmed Suno was used on a demo track and will now make staff and partners disclose AI use.
Music11 Aug 2026
Kapwing study estimates AI country acts Breaking Rust and Cain Walker have earned over $730,000
A Kapwing analysis of Songstats data estimates two AI country acts earned about $731,851 from 166 million-plus streams and views.
Music7 Aug 2026
Tyga says AI helped make his synthpop album $tarface
Tyga says AI supplied parts of $tarface but not its writing or vocals, raising the question of how AI-assisted albums fit new chart rules.
Music5 Aug 2026
India's Saregama turns to generative AI to make videos for decades-old film songs
India's oldest label owns the songs but never the film footage, so it is making cheap AI videos and reworked versions of 1960s and 70s hits for new audiences.
Music4 Aug 2026
Detection tool and its maker point to Fenix Flexin's 'Rubberz' as the first AI-generated Hot 100 hit
After weeks of denials, Treblo's own classifier and a comment from its co-founder indicate the No. 58 hit was generated with its software, a first for the Billboard Hot 100.
Music31 Jul 2026
Boy George leaves London's Jesus Christ Superstar after backlash to his AI-made song
The singer quit his King Herod role days after posting a pro-Israel song he said was made with AI and arguing with critics online.
Music13 Jul 2026
Soolking features on Cogite with Willylancien, the faceless AI rap act behind Magique
The raï-rap star's feature on Cogite lends weight to Willylancien, an anonymous act flagged as AI-made whose hit Magique split French hip-hop.
Music13 Jul 2026
Folk duo finds sped-up copies of its songs outstreaming the originals on Spotify
A Philadelphia folk duo found altered copies of its songs drawing hundreds of thousands of bot-driven plays on Spotify, cutting into its royalties.
Music8 Jul 2026
Human musicians form a Velvet Sundown tribute band to raise money for real artists
The Bootleg Velvet Sundown will re-record the viral AI act's songs and give all profits to working musicians.
Music7 Jul 2026
Credo V Daniels defends his use of AI after his album vanishes from Apple Music
Accused of letting AI sing for him, the South African artist says AI only assists his own work; why his album left Apple Music is unconfirmed.
Music6 Jul 2026
Sydney booking agency apologises after putting an AI act on a live bill
Good Intent Music took the blame after an undisclosed AI act played a Sydney show, saying it failed to check the booking properly.
Music22 Jun 2026
Grammy-winning engineers launch UAI, an AI music detector that issues signed certificates
RTM Audio's UAI flags a track as AI only when two separate checks agree, and backs each verdict with a signed certificate meant to hold up in disputes.
Music21 Jun 2026
SZA attacks AI music and accuses Diplo of helping train Suno on Black creators' work
The singer told musicians not to feed their work to AI, days after Suno's product chief defended its safeguards against imitation.
Music19 Jun 2026
Gareth Emery launches an AI-free label after finding AI models trained on his music
The trance producer says AI models were trained on his catalogue, and launches Emotional Intelligence Records for human-made music only.
Music17 Jun 2026
Warner Music China partners with virtual-singer maker Dream Maker
Dream Maker, which says it has built 3,000 motion-captured virtual singers, will put Warner artists on its avatars' releases.
Music16 Jun 2026
The Atlantic traces four large music datasets passing among AI developers
More than 21 million recordings in four research datasets are circulating among AI developers, some of them used by Google and Stability AI.
Music16 Jun 2026
Artist Included launches with an AI-assisted Boy George re-recording of Karma Chameleon
A new company is helping legacy acts cut AI-assisted, artist-owned re-recordings, starting with Boy George singing a new Karma Chameleon.
Music15 Jun 2026
Bring Me The Horizon pull an AI-animated lyric video after fans object
The band removed the Black And Blue lyric video and matching promo reels after criticism of their AI-generated visuals.
