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Title: AI-Generated Song Tops Country Music Chart

Link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/1...

Slashdot readers Tablizer and fjo3 share news that an AI-generated country
song has topped the U.S. sales chart for the first time this week. ABC News
reports: The new country tune, "Walk my Walk" by Breaking Rust, recently hit
No. 1 on Billboard's Country Digital Song Sales chart, reaching over 3
million streams on Spotify in less than a month. That success has garnered
mixed reactions from music fans and artists alike, particularly on TikTok,
where hundreds of users have posted videos addressing the tune and others
discussing the music in the comments. Billboard has acknowledged Breaking
Rust is an AI act and said it is one of at least six to chart in the past few
months alone. "Ultimately, this feels like an experiment to see just how far
something like this can go and what happens in the future and in other
disciplines of art as well," senior entertainment reporter Kelley L. Carter
told ABC News. "AI artists won't require things that a real human artist will
require, and once companies start considering it and looking at bottom lines,
I think that's when artists should rightly be concerned about it," she added.

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