Australia’s music industry bans AI-generated songs from official charts

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2 on the May singles chart of the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) and remained in fourth place on Tuesday. Tracks can be eligible only if "humans wrote the song and performed the lead vocal and the primary instruments," among other requirements, the statement said. music would also be ineligible for the Australian industry's prestigious ARIA awards.

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• ARIA's chief executive, Annabelle Herd, said: "These changes reflect our intent to remain dynamic and promote the human nature of artistry in what is—to say the least—a rapidly developing space.
• "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...

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The crackdown comes as a variation of Madonna's pop hit "Like a Prayer" created by an Australian producer using AI -generated vocals and drums has spent 16 weeks in the Australian Top 20, stoking debate about generative AI's place in music.