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the market for AI bands is gullible journalists

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/13/no-fake-ai-music-bought-onto-a-minor-chart-is-not-actually-popular/ - text

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Sources:

• Rolling Stone: The Velvet Sundown https://www.rollingstone.com/t/the-velvet-sundown/
• The most downloaded country song in the US right now was made by AI https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/breaking-rust-country-ai-singer-billboard-b2863883.html
• How Many AI Artists Have Debuted on Billboard's Charts? https://www.billboard.com/lists/ai-artists-on-billboard-charts/

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Got them AI spammin' blues: flooding Spotify with fake streams of fake songs https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/05/got-them-ai-spammin-blues-flooding-spotify-with-fake-streams-of-fake-songs/
• H&M's 'AI models' campaign makes impossible claims https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/15/hms-ai-models-campaign-makes-impossible-claims/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lICrD3qh_I&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• Seraphinne Vallora: dubious AI fashion hype. Again. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/27/seraphinne-vallora-dubious-ai-model-hype-again/
• video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVc-5DOLbMY&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA
• We try Suno's AI music generator — hear Suno fail the Fall https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/08/we-try-sunos-ai-music-hear-suno-fail-the-fall/

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDJa67iHDQM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA

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