SYDNEY, Aug 26 (Reuters) – AI-generated music will be excluded from Australia’s music charts starting this week, the country’s peak music trade group said, following controversy over an Australian DJ’s cover of Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” topping local music charts.
The Australian Recording Industry Association, or ARIA, said on Tuesday that wholly AI-generated tracks would no longer be eligible for its popular ARIA Charts, although recordings that use generative AI in a supporting role would remain eligible.
A recording developed using generative AI will be eligible only if it is “substantially human-made” and raises no concerns around streaming or chart manipulation, ARIA said.
Major global record labels have been seeking new licensing arrangements to protect their vast catalogues as AI-generated music grows in popularity and consumers increasingly struggle to distinguish it from human-composed songs.
“The ARIA charts will always remain a transparent measurement of the music Australia consumes, but a chart that rewards unlicensed AI output would undercut the very basis of the recorded music we exist to represent,” ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd said.
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