Google rolls out Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music
Google's new song model promises stronger lyrics, vocals and musical control, but its public evidence is still mostly comparative rather than numerical.
What’s happening in AI music
Important releases, creative work, rights decisions and industry shifts — explained clearly and linked to the original sources.
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Official charts set a human-made threshold for AI-assisted music
IFPI's global principles keep AI-assisted recordings eligible, but require lawful services, substantial human creation and honest disclosure.
Five July papers move AI music beyond the one-shot song prompt
New work explored playable soundscapes, compensation signals, low-data training, structured composition and full-song rendering.
Catapult adds mandatory AI disclosure to music delivery
Artists must now answer separate questions about artwork, recordings, composition and identity before distribution.
Musicians want a share of the labels’ AI licensing deals
The AFM’s cases against Universal and Warner ask who gets paid when recordings are licensed for model training.
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Josh Fawaz shows how a rough vocal becomes an AI performance
The producer's behind-the-scenes clip makes voice transformation visible — and underlines why precise credits matter.
Charli XCX's producers used AI as a sampling instrument, not a song generator
Concatenator helped reshape a studio jam for “No One Lasts Forever,” illustrating a quieter and more practical form of AI-assisted production.
GEMA launches a rights-cleared music dataset for assistive AI tools
PLAI bundles 178,000 audio files with metadata, composition rights and master rights; transcription company Klangio is the first customer.
Music analytics is becoming a data layer for AI agents
Viberate and Soundcharts opened structured music data to conversational assistants. The shift could change A&R and marketing without generating a single note.
AI-generated tracks pass half of Deezer's daily uploads
Deezer says roughly 90,000 fully generated tracks arrived per day at the June peak — an upload statistic, not a measure of listening.
SOCAN is testing whether AI attribution can support payment
The Canadian rights organization and Musical AI will test recognition technology on a limited set of generated outputs.
Sony Music files a second copyright lawsuit against Udio
The new complaint covers recordings a judge did not allow Sony to add to the original case. The claimed scale is large; the allegations remain untested.
Symphonic artists get an opt-in route for licensed AI use
A partnership with Sureel AI promises permissions, tracking and contribution-based payments. The design is promising; its performance still needs evidence.