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- 25 Sept
AI Music News 25 SeptMichael Smith asks for no prison over his $8M AI streaming fraud, saying no artist felt the harm
- Michael Smith's lawyers asked Judge John G. Koeltl for probation instead of prison in a filing dated September 22, 2026.
- The filing says no individual artist or songwriter suffered “any perceptible harm” from his bot streams.
- The Presentence Investigation Report recommends 24 months, below the federal guidelines range of 46 to 57 months.
- 25 Sept
AI Music News 25 SeptQobuz now tags AI-generated music, and says only 0.38% of its streams come from AI tracks
- Qobuz started showing an AI tag on September 24, 2026, on albums its in-house system identifies as including AI-generated tracks.
- Only 0.38% of all streams on Qobuz come from tracks identified as AI-generated, about 1 in every 263.
- Qobuz says 60% of streams on AI-identified tracks are fraudulent and excluded from royalty payouts.
- 25 Sept
Tool News & Updates 25 SeptElevenLabs hits $600 million in annual revenue, and its CEO says callers should know they're talking to AI
- ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski told TechCrunch on September 24, 2026 that the company is at $600 million in annual recurring revenue.
- More than 55% of that revenue comes from enterprise customers, and much of the rest from small businesses, developers, builders and creators.
- Bloomberg reported in July 2026 that ElevenLabs was in early talks over an employee tender offer at about $22 billion, double its $11 billion Series D valuation.
- 25 Sept
Tool News & Updates 25 SeptLANDR says Spotify-flagged fake streams fell 95%, and names the release patterns its fraud AI now checks
- LANDR says artificial streams flagged by Spotify on the music it distributes fell 95% between Q1 2025 and Q2 2026.
- LANDR credits several fraud-prevention steps for the drop, and says the models it built with Mila, deployed in February 2026, are one part of them.
- The system now checks for unusually high release frequency, overnight catalogs, accounts sharing devices or payout details, and metadata impersonating established artists.
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- 25 Sept
Tool News & Updates 25 SeptVoice-Swap becomes the first AI voice company in DDEX, to build consent data for AI vocals
- Voice-Swap joined DDEX, the standards body behind the music industry's shared data formats, as a Full Member on September 24, 2026.
- Voice-Swap says it is the first dedicated AI voice company to take part in DDEX's standards work.
- It wants to contribute to standards for voice-model identity, consent and authorisation metadata, usage-scoped permissions, provenance and rights reporting.
- 25 Sept
Music Intelligence 25 SeptWhy TikTok is full of AI Viking rap: Suno songs, invented warriors and 8.5 million views
- AI Viking rap is AI-generated hip-hop about Valhalla and battle, performed on screen by invented, heavily tattooed Viking characters, and it spread across TikTok throughout 2026.
- Know Your Meme says creators make the songs with tools such as Suno and the performers with image and video generators.
- North Wind Calls by the AI act Draugr Balled, posted on TikTok on April 4, 2026, passed 8.5 million views and 315,100 likes.
- 24 Sept
AI Music News 24 SeptOpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam and 2 Patreon execs to build tools for creators
- Patreon co-founder Sam Yam announced on September 22, 2026 that he is joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product.
- Drew Rowny, Patreon's head of product, and Shannon Ma, its head of engineering, are joining him.
- Yam promised early access to a new set of tools for creators but has not said what they are.
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I'm Christopher Wieduwilt. Founder of The AI Musicpreneur.
Christopher Wieduwilt
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I've been a musician for over 25 years — metal bands in Germany, a solo singer-songwriter project that toured the US coast to coast, 500,000+ plays on Myspace. Then Myspace crashed and I lost my entire fanbase overnight.
After that I worked inside the music industry for years on the business side: managing artists, working for record labels, organising concerts and festivals. Watched the same mistakes repeat on newer platforms.
In 2023, generative music AI started reshaping everything: production, promotion, rights, revenue. I started covering AI in music production in August 2023, before Suno's public launch. 200+ stories since.
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My article on What is AI music covers this in full: how AI models are trained on audio, what generation tools can and can't do, and where the copyright questions stand.
Will AI replace musicians?
The short answer is no, but the longer answer matters more. Will AI replace musicians breaks down what AI can produce, what it can't, and where human artists still have ground that's hard to take.
Is AI music copyrighted?
Practice is shifting. The US Copyright Office has ruled that purely AI-generated output doesn't qualify for copyright protection. Is AI music copyrighted covers the current legal position, the active lawsuits, and what this means for artists using AI tools in their work.
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