February 2026

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/give-your-agent-a-music-career-new-ai-only-online-radio-station-launches

Claw-FM is a newly launched AI-only online radio station where autonomous AI agents submit and broadcast music they’ve generated, operating under a model that even lets these agents “earn” crypto-based royalties from listener tips, positioning itself as a quirky experiment in autonomous music ecosystems and raising questions about whether humans will actually want to tune in to robot-made playlists.

February 2026

https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2026/02/11/pushing-deeper-into-ai-music-creation-with-mozart-ai/

Mozart AI is a new AI-driven music creation platform and “co-producer” DAW that helps musicians turn ideas into songs by interpreting natural-language commands to suggest chords, melodies, arrangements and technical production tasks, aiming to speed up workflow without replacing human creativity - positioning itself between traditional DAWs and one-click generative tools by keeping artists in control of the process.

February 2026

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/lalal-ai-brings-its-ai-powered-stem-separation-into-your-daw-with-its-first-plugin

LALAL.AI has released its first DAW plugin, bringing its AI-powered stem separation directly into your music software so you can split tracks into vocals and instrumentals without leaving your project. The VST3 plugin runs locally on most systems and is currently available to Pro subscribers, with plans to add multi-stem separation in future updates - aimed at keeping producers and engineers working smoothly inside their workflow.

January 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/22/liza-minnelli-uses-ai-to-release-first-new-music-in-13-years

Liza Minnelli has released her first new music in 13 years with a dance track titled “Kids, Wait Till You Hear This,” created with the help of AI tools that shaped the arrangement while leaving her own vocals and personality front and centre, a move she says is about using technology to expand expression rather than replace the artist.

January 2026

https://newindustryfocus.com/articles/tone-debuts-ai-powered-contract-analyzer

Tone’s music-industry royalty platform has launched an AI-powered Contract Analyzer that lets users upload PDF contracts and instantly get clear summaries of key clauses and terms, plus a table of values linked back to the original document. It’s designed to take the grunt work out of interpreting complex royalty agreements so labels, managers and accountants can onboard deals and manage contracts much faster and with less manual effort.

January 2026

https://routenote.com/blog/morgan-stanley-report-ai-music-listening-habits/

Morgan Stanley’s annual audio habits survey — the first to ask about AI-generated music — finds that a large share of younger Americans are already tuning in: about 60 % of 18–29-year-olds and 55 % of 30–44-year-olds report listening to AI music for roughly 2.5–3 hours per week, while older groups listen less; YouTube and TikTok are the main places they find it, suggesting AI music consumption is happening largely outside traditional streaming services and signalling that AI-created tracks aren’t a niche curiosity but part of everyday listening for many younger fans.

January 2026

https://routenote.com/blog/morgan-stanley-report-ai-music-listening-habits/

Rights-management startup Musical AI (formerly Somms.ai) has raised $4.5 million in fresh funding to scale its technology that traces which copyrighted works influence AI-generated music and helps license and attribute those sources properly. Its platform aims to make AI training and royalties more transparent and fair by showing rightsholders where their material was used and enabling licensed access for AI companies, with backing from investors like Heavybit and the Business Development Bank of Canada. The company plans to grow its team, enhance its tools, and expand partnerships across the music industry and beyond.

December 2025

https://music.ai/news/music-industry/ai-music-royalties-data-thomas-sachson-sony-pictures/

Thomas Sachson argues that as AI expands content beyond scarcity, the music industry shouldn’t rush to overhaul royalty systems without first collecting better evidence about how music is actually valued in an AI-rich world; he suggests immediate action on ethical AI training (consent, credit, compensation) while building new listener-driven data signals—such as hybrid models where fans allocate subscribers’ payments—to inform any future royalty redesign, rather than just reacting to uncertainty with structural upheaval.

November 2025

https://music.ai/news/music-tech/verifiable-music-ownership-over-ai-detection-sam-gabriel-beatlibrary/

Sam Gabriel, co-founder of Beatlibrary, argues the music industry’s focus should shift from simple AI detection to verifiable creative ownership, because current systems don’t reliably prove who actually made a song. He says that without trusted, automated tools to track a work’s origin and ensure creators get proper credit and compensation, disputes over AI involvement distract from deeper structural problems. A neutral, third-party verification engine could automatically record ownership and notify all parties when music is used, helping protect rights, build trust, and make the data behind music as valuable as the music itself.

October 2025

https://music.ai/news/music-tech/spotify-major-labels-artist-first-ai-tools/

Spotify is teaming up with Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group (along with partners like Merlin and Believe) to build licensed “artist-first” AI music tools that are designed to respect copyright, give artists choice over participation, and create new revenue opportunities — a contrast to unlicensed AI startup efforts facing legal trouble. The initiative follows Spotify’s crackdown on spammy AI tracks and is part of a broader push toward ethical, collaborative AI innovation that supports artists and songwriters rather than sidesteps their rights.

September 2025

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-25/spotify-strengthens-ai-protections/

Spotify says it supports creative uses of AI but is tightening protections against abuse, particularly AI voice impersonation, spam uploads, and deceptive content. The company is enforcing clearer rules against unauthorised voice cloning, improving detection and removal of low-quality mass-produced AI tracks that distort discovery and royalties, and supporting new metadata standards so creators can disclose how AI was used. The aim is to protect artist identity, listener trust, and fair payment, not to ban AI outright.

Sptember 2025

https://music.ai/news/music-industry/compensation-creator-vs-platform-roland-kluger/

Roland Kluger argues that the real battleground in the AI-reshaped music industry isn’t whether machines can outcompose humans, but who gets paid fairly as platforms flood the market with new content and aim to minimise payouts; he says platforms won’t voluntarily build equitable compensation systems and that meaningful change will come through legal pressure, copyright law (which still hinges on human authorship for protection), and artists building their own leverage, with human creators still likely to drive major cultural moments even as AI dominates functional music production, and the core challenge becoming power and visibility rather than technology itself.

Sptember 2025

https://www.musicradar.com/music-tech/ai-helped-me-create-something-i-couldnt-before-bto-kid-who-spent-4-months-in-a-coma-hails-the-program-through-which-he-was-able-to-express-emotion?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The article tells the story of Lucas Horne, known as BTO Kid, who spent four months in a coma and was left with a monotone voice that couldn’t express the emotion in the songs he’d written during recovery. AI allowed him to shape his vocal performance and finally record music that matched what he heard in his head. His AI-assisted tracks have now earned him a nomination for the Future Sound Awards, showing how the technology can empower rather than replace musicians. Horne says AI helped him create something he simply couldn’t achieve physically, offering a hopeful example of AI enhancing human expression.

Sptember 2025

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-25/spotify-strengthens-ai-protections/

Spotify announced stronger protections to address the rapid growth of AI-generated music, focusing on protecting artists, listeners, and the integrity of the platform. The company is tightening rules against unauthorized AI voice cloning and impersonation, improving detection to prevent AI tracks from being falsely uploaded to real artists’ profiles, and deploying more advanced spam filters to reduce low-quality mass uploads that can distort discovery and royalties. At the same time, Spotify supports greater transparency by working toward industry standards that disclose how AI is used in music credits, aiming to balance creative freedom with clear attribution, fairness, and trust as AI becomes more embedded in music creation.

May 2024

https://musiciansunion.org.uk/news/why-music-creators-won-t-support-a-major-label-led-campaign-on-ai?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The article argues that music creators are refusing to back a campaign on AI led by major record labels and publishers — because those same rights-holders have spent the last 16 years profiting from streaming deals that creators see as deeply unfair. 

Creators feel there’s no trust: labels want their public support now, but haven’t rectified decades of unequal pay. 

In short: until streaming-era injustices are fixed and any AI revenue sharing is agreed up front, many musicians simply won’t fall for “another cosy rights-holder deal.” 

October 2023

https://www.zinstrel.com/ai-songs-creators/how-ai-music-empowers-disabled-creators?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The article shows how AI music tools are empowering disabled creators by giving them access to musical expression that their bodies no longer allow. It highlights artists like HUNI, who uses AI to turn his lyrics into full songs despite severe cerebral palsy, and others who rely on AI the way someone would use a mobility aid. Their message is clear: AI isn’t replacing creativity, it’s restoring the ability to create, making music more inclusive for people who were previously shut out.