Overview
- Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart lists Breaking Rust’s “Walk My Walk” at No. 1, with outlets reporting this as the first AI-created act to lead a Billboard chart.
- Billboard has described Breaking Rust as an AI-powered project, with reporting noting fully synthetic vocals and instrumentation on the tracks.
- Spotify metrics show more than 2 million monthly listeners, over 3 million streams for “Walk My Walk,” and more than 4 million for “Livin’ on Borrowed Time,” plus tens of thousands of Instagram followers.
- The songs are credited to Aubierre Rivaldo Taylor, an obscure figure linked to AI projects whose identity and role remain unclear.
- Coverage notes the sales-focused chart can be topped with relatively modest purchases, sharpening debate over scale as labels, publishers, and artists push for AI guardrails following recent lawsuits.