Creating your own virtual instrument has traditionally required a mixture of music production knowledge, software development skills and a considerable amount of time. Lunacy Audio wants to change that. The music software company has launched…
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AI music is entering a new phase. Until recently, the biggest argument around generative music was whether AI companies had permission to use copyrighted recordings and compositions when training their models. Now companies are beginning…
AI-generated music is moving rapidly from experimental technology into the commercial music system. That became particularly clear in September 2026 when Believe announced a strategic partnership with Suno involving participating Believe and TuneCore artists and…
AI is going to become part of making music. That battle is probably already over. But there is a much bigger question the music industry still needs to answer: Should a song generated almost entirely…
VYRMA seemingly appeared from nowhere. In May 2026, the project’s Linktree profile was created. A few months later, VYRMA has more than 160,000 monthly Spotify listeners and hundreds of thousands of streams on individual tracks.…
Amazon and Google spent the best part of a decade putting smart speakers into homes around the world. Amazon now says there are more than 600 million Alexa devices in existence. That is an extraordinary…
For decades, the music industry has largely made money when people consume music. Buy a record. Download a song. Stream a track. Watch a music video. But artificial intelligence could create an entirely new type…
Universal Music Group is taking another major step into AI music. The world’s largest music company has announced a multi-year partnership with ElevenLabs to develop a new licensed AI music platform where fans will be…
Apple Music plans to start showing listeners when a substantial part of a track has been created using generative AI. The label will read: Made With AI. This isn’t a ban on AI music. It’s…
Spotify is introducing a new label designed to distinguish AI-generated artist identities from artists representing real people. They’re called AI Persona badges. Spotify plans to start applying them to relevant profiles from mid-September 2026. For…
