Overview
- ElevenLabs launched Eleven Music, a generative tool that creates full compositions from text prompts with lyric, timing and instrumentation editing plus downloadable stems.
- The company released The Eleven Album to showcase the system, featuring 13 contributors including Liza Minnelli, Art Garfunkel and Michael Feinstein, with streaming available on elevenlabs.io and Spotify as of January 21.
- Participating artists released tracks through their own channels and retain full ownership and 100% of streaming revenue, according to ElevenLabs.
- ElevenLabs points to licensing pacts with Kobalt and Merlin and an expanded Iconic Marketplace to enable approved use of artists’ voices and musical identities with direct rights-holder control.
- The company cites safeguards such as identity verification for pro voice cloning and a “sonic fingerprint” watermark, while some coverage differs on whether Minnelli’s track uses live vocals or an AI recreation.