"There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed": This apparently AI-generated artist is racking up hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams

[u/Kaiser_Allen]

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/theres-not-a-shred-of-evidence-on-the-internet-that-this-band-has-ever-existed-this-apparently-ai-generated-artist-is-racking-up-hundreds-of-thousands-of-spotify-streams

[u/kx233]

Not true. They still have to pay royalties, unless they are the ones using AI to create this.

They do have their own generic bands, that they don't have to pay royalties to, but that predates AI https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

[u/TheNewsDeskFive → u/kx233]

They're not even paying royalties out to real artists. If you don't reach a magic number of unique listeners then you don't get your money.

They also won't extend any promotional benefits to artists with less than 25k listeners. So, the people that need these tools

They didn't even put my last release on Release Radar despite doing what I needed to do, but AI electronica did.

It's clear suppression in the name of profits.

[u/darkjurai → u/TheNewsDeskFive]

If you don't reach a magic number of unique listeners then you don't get your money.

Yep. And they've moved the goalposts a number of times, basically rugpulling small artists.

[u/Commandmanda → u/kx233]

I was thinking this. So, from 100,000 downloads, how much do you think they're getting?

[u/Commandmanda → u/[deleted]]

Geez.

[u/Random_Rindom → u/kx233]

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