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Australia Bans AI-Made Music From Charts

The new code allows AI-assisted recordings to chart if they are substantially human-made and free of stream or chart manipulation concerns, ARIA said.

  • Starting this Friday, The Australian Recording Industry Association will exclude wholly AI-generated songs from its official charts under updated Charts Code rules designed to distinguish human-created recordings from material produced entirely by artificial intelligence.
  • ARIA's move follows principles published in July by The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry , with more than 20 official chart programs globally adopting similar rules to prevent wholly AI-generated material from dominating charts.
  • Scrutiny intensified after Queensland producer Josh Fawaz's cover of Madonna's 'Like A Prayer' reached number four on ARIA charts in July; Fawaz later updated Spotify to confirm AI-generated vocals and drums.
  • ARIA chief executive Annabelle Herd stated that rewarding unlicensed AI-generated output would 'undercut the very basis of the recorded music we exist to present,' though AI-assisted tracks remain eligible if 'substantially human-made.'
  • Australian band Peking Duk supported the ban, claiming AI-generated music is 'removing the human experience from life,' while the federal government develops new rules including 'strong copyright protections for Australian creators.
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Australia closes the doors to the hits created by the robots. LARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association), the body that draws up the official music charts of the country, announced that the songs entirely generated by artificial intelligence will no longer be able to appear in its charts, nor to compete for the ARIA Music Awards. To make the situation fall was the cover of [...] L'articolo The cover of  Like a Prayer by Madonna sung by …

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Melbourne. The Australian music industry will ban songs generated entirely by artificial intelligence from appearing on official lists, as flourishing generative technologies threaten the livelihoods of artists, one representative said.

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AI-generated songs will be banned from Australian music charts, the country's top music industry body has announced, following controversy over a cover of Madonna's "Like a Prayer" by an Australian DJ reaching number one on the local charts. The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) said on Tuesday that recordings generated entirely by artificial intelligence will no longer be allowed to enter its popular music charts. Such works will…

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Digital Music News broke the news on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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