Overview

• Velvet Sundown updated its Spotify bio on July 5 to confirm that all characters, stories, voices, lyrics and music were created with artificial intelligence under human creative direction.
• Its track “Dust on the Wind” reached No. 1 on Spotify’s daily Viral 50 charts in Britain, Norway and Sweden, helping the project exceed one million monthly listeners.
• Spotify has declined to comment on the admission, while Deezer uses an AI-detection tool to flag Velvet Sundown’s tracks as AI-generated content.
• Industry stakeholders and artists, citing a CISAC study forecasting artist revenue declines, are pressing streaming services to adopt clear AI-labeling standards and implement algorithmic accountability.
• A hoax spokesperson using the pseudonym Andrew Frelon issued conflicting statements before admitting to trolling, underscoring challenges in verifying authorship in AI-driven music.