Overview
- Breaking Rust’s AI-generated “Walk My Walk” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart and has surpassed three million Spotify streams in under a month.
- The track leads Spotify’s U.S. Viral 50, while another Breaking Rust song, “Livin’ on Borrowed Time,” sits in the top five, and the project has drawn a large TikTok following.
- Billboard reports at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on its rankings in recent months, reflecting wider chart and streaming visibility for AI music.
- Canada’s House of Commons Heritage committee has finished hearings on AI and the creative sector and is drafting a report as creators press for training-data transparency and a licensing framework.
- Platforms and industry groups cite evolving safeguards, with Spotify removing tens of millions of suspected spam tracks and the RIAA targeting AI outputs that misuse artists’ names or likenesses, while a Deezer survey found most listeners struggle to tell AI from human-made music.