In the wake of the US Screen Actors Guild strike over AI protections and UK musicians’ silent album to protest proposed changes to copyright law, more than a dozen AI-produced tracks have emerged on the Billboard charts since 2022.
While AI music has gone viral across social media platforms like TikTok through novelty covers that use AI to change songs from one genre to another, achieving chart presence introduces a level of industry and cultural legitimacy that aligns with longstanding markers of music industry success.
