Major Labels Move to Block AI Slop From Music Charts
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Major Labels Move to Block AI Slop From Music Charts
Record labels have had enough. The big three — Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group — along with independent label Mom+Pop Music put forward a plan this week. They want official music charts around the world to bar most songs built with generative artificial intelligence. Only tracks that qualify as substantially human-made would count. The proposal lands amid a flood of machine-produced music. Services report that more than …
The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts
Several record labels, including the big three - Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group - have proposed rules regarding chart eligibility for AI songs. In short, they wouldn't be. The proposal goes quite a bit further than a labeling proposal put forth by the RIAA, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), SAG-AFTRA, and others. That would create a set of standardized labels for AI-generated and AI-assi…
Universal, Sony and Warner have stood up: the charts should not be the playground of artificial intelligence. The three major record labels have joined forces to push forward rules that expel the songs generated with AI from charts — from Billboard to the Top 40 — without substantial human intervention. The proposal, advanced by The Verge, goes far beyond the simple labeling already suggested by RIAA, IFPI and the SAG-AFTRA actor union. The smal…
The new model, available at Google Flow Music, improves vocal quality and tempo control and length of songs. Sony, Universal and Warner demand that tracks created entirely by AI stay off the charts.
UMG, WMG, Sony, and other record companies propose a set of principles for how AI-generated songs should be considered for chart eligibility (Ariel King/Billboard)
Ariel King / Billboard: UMG, WMG, Sony, and other record companies propose a set of principles for how AI-generated songs should be considered for chart eligibility — The recent proposal follows a coalition of industry trade groups who teamed up to propose a system for labeling AI-generated songs on streaming services.
Synthetic Ghosts Are Haunting the Charts. The Industry Wants Them Gone.
They have no voice, no soul, no rights—yet synthetic ghost tracks are climbing the charts worldwide. Synthetic ghost tracks, sutured together from musicians’ catalogs scraped without consent (aka stolen), are multiplying across DSPs at an alarming pace—the same DSPs whose data feeds directly into the charts. How alarming is it, you ask? According to Murray Stassen at Music Business Worldwide (MBW), Deezer reported nearly 90,000 fully AI-generate…
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