The song "Stay forever young" composed and performed by AI reached nearly 1.6 million views after 2 months of release. The song was posted on YouTube, with Euro Disco style, a typical style of Modern Talking, reaching nearly 500 comments in about 2 months.
AI-composed songs explode
"Stay Forever Young" is one of thousands of AI-generated songs, according to Deezer (a French music streaming platform), about 28% of the music uploaded to the system is AI-generated. That's about 30,000 songs a day. The growth rate is exponential with the time frame measured in months.
AI singer sings the song "Stay forever young" created by AI (Photo cut from clip)
Deezer's results are based on an AI detection tool that the platform has been using since early 2025. "After a year of boom, AI-generated music has become a significant part of the daily music releases. We want to be at the forefront of limiting the negative impact of this type of music on artists and listeners," said Alexis Lanternier, CEO of Deezer.
The AI band "The Velvet Sundown" currently has millions of streams on Spotify. Musically, the AI band "The Velvet Sundown" mimics the musical colors of the legendary bands Pink Floyd and King Crimson. According to the weekly Le Point, this fictional band has created a lot of buzz thanks to its presence on many different online platforms at the same time.
While in the past, a band or a singer could take decades to build their name, AI can now mimic what is already available, to create a musical world that is slightly different, instead of new. With just a few clicks, the production team can create everything from music sounds to video images, even the biographies of the members are all fictional.
Oscar-winning music producer Leo Sidran fumed: "The rise of AI reflects the cliché and formulaicism of many modern music genres. There are already a large number of songs that will be born without knowing who created them and how."
Deezer is the only platform currently using AI composition recognition technology to remove these works from its platform. For Deezer, this move is aimed at minimizing the impact on royalties, while increasing transparency and preventing fraud, which is the main cause of uploading AI-composed music.
Meanwhile, Spotify has been criticized for being a "hostile place for AI music." Last month, the band "The Velvet Sundown" (actually a virtual band created by AI) was verified by Spotify and quickly reached more than 400,000 streams within just 1 month of its launch.
Previously, Harper's Magazine accused Spotify of inserting music from "ghost artists" into popular playlists to reduce copyright payments.
Call for copyright law reform
A report by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) published at the end of 2024 warned that, without appropriate management measures, by 2028, artists could lose up to 25% of their income due to AI, equivalent to 4 billion euros.
A series of major artists, from Nick Cave, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Radiohead, Dua Lipa to Kate Bush and Robbie Williams, have called on the UK government and many other countries to amend copyright laws to protect creative workers from the threat from AI.
Not only in terms of technology, the fact that AI is taking the music industry by storm makes professionals worry about a future lacking proactive creativity.
Counterfeit music often uses synthesized vocals from famous artists or copies of popular songs - elements that cannot be protected by copyright today.
Many artists - the direct creators - have spoken out to question fairness and worry about the future livelihoods of millions of artists around the world.
Lawsuits and legal disputes have been ongoing recently. Record labels representing artists such as Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar and Ed Sheeran have accused companies of copyright infringement on their recordings.
Dozens of musicians, including Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj and Stevie Wonder, also wrote an open letter last year warning that AI-generated music trained on their work could undermine the inherent creativity of music.
Technology has helped the music industry flourish - from electric guitars, synthesizers to autotune - but according to Professor George Howard of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, AI technology is a completely different challenge, it can wipe out many artists, wipe out creativity.
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