Overview

• The Velvet Sundown exceeded 550,000 monthly Spotify listeners within four weeks of releasing two albums in June.
• Deezer flagged several tracks on its platform as potentially AI-generated and critics noted AI-like imagery on the band’s new Instagram page.
• Spotify allows the group to remain unlabelled as AI content and has not publicly addressed authenticity concerns.
• The band’s X posts deny AI involvement, insisting its music was made with “real instruments, real minds, and real soul.”
• The episode underscores industry debates over AI-generated music’s impact on artist revenues, copyright law and platform transparency.