For the first time ever, a song generated by artificial intelligence has climbed to the top of the charts.
This week, a country artist named Breaking Rust landed the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart for the second week in a row with the hit single “Walk My Walk.” But it almost immediately became clear that the singer behind the raspy voice and vague lyrics telling haters to “kick rocks” because “I was born this way, been loud too long,” was never born at all.
